Contents

Prose
1. The Book of Nature /
Jawaharlal Nehru
2. A Day’s Wait / Ernest
Hemingway
3. I was Gandhi’s Jailer /
Patrick Quinn
4. Too Dear / Leo Tolstoy
5. My Greatest Olympic Prize
/ Jesse Owens
6. Fighting the Invisible-I / Navin Sullivan
7. Fighting the Invisible-II / Navin Sullivan
8. The Owl Who was God / James Thurber
9. My Struggle for an Education / Booker
T. Washington
10. Maori Villages / M. Brown
11. Hari / Nayantara Sahgal
12. Michael Goes Climbing / The Children’s
Encyclopedia
13. My Lost Dollar / Stephen Leacock
14. Operation Indian Ocean / Mihir Sen
Verse
1. The Perfect Life / Ben Jonson
2. Coromandel Fishers / Sarojini Naidu
3. To Sleep / William Wordsworth
4. Silver / Walter de la Mare
5. Ozymandias / P.B. Shelley
6. The Well of St. Keyne / Robert Southey
7. Upagupta / Rabindranath Tagore
8. James Honeyman / W.H. Auden
9. Night of the Scorpion / Nissim Ezekiel
10. If / Rudyard Kipling