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Before You Read: Don’t Call Them Old

Part I — A Lawyer in a Rocking Chair

Part II — The World’s Clumsiest Detective

Part III — Who Really Needs Vitamin-M?

The Family in the Flat

What the Story Is Really About

Read Closely, Answer Carefully

Words That Move, Words That Sound — and Reported Speech

Say It, Play It, Write It

Asha Nehemiah: The Art of the Light Touch

The Bond Thread: A Child Lost at the Fair

Before You Read: What the Heart Remembers

I Cannot Remember My Mother

A Presence, Not a Memory

Words for the Five Senses

Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet of a Nation

Before You Read: What the Heart Remembers

You can forget a face and still feel a presence everywhere

A child at a window gazing into a wide blue sky, white shiuli flowers on the sill, soft early light

The poem is by Rabindranath Tagore — one of the greatest writers India has ever produced. It is short, simple, and quietly devastating. Before you read, here are its key words.

⚙Word Lab

Six words from the poem. Tap each to flip.

Did you get them?

Quick Check

Q1.To hum a tune is to:

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Q1.What is the poem's central paradox (apparent contradiction)?

A child at a window gazing into a wide blue sky, white shiuli flowers on the sill, soft early light

The poem is by Rabindranath Tagore — one of the greatest writers India has ever produced. It is short, simple, and quietly devastating. Before you read, here are its key words.

⚙Word Lab

Six words from the poem. Tap each to flip.

Did you get them?

Quick Check

Q1.To hum a tune is to:

Quick Check

Q1.What is the poem's central paradox (apparent contradiction)?

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✦Think About It

Here is a strange truth about memory: sometimes a smell — wet earth, a certain soap, a particular flower — or a tune, or a quality of light, can suddenly fill you with someone, even someone you barely consciously remember. Has a smell or a sound ever brought a person rushing back to you, before you could even think their name?

Think of your earliest years — too early to 'remember' clearly — yet something from then might still reach you through the senses.

✦Think About It

Here is a strange truth about memory: sometimes a smell — wet earth, a certain soap, a particular flower — or a tune, or a quality of light, can suddenly fill you with someone, even someone you barely consciously remember. Has a smell or a sound ever brought a person rushing back to you, before you could even think their name?

Think of your earliest years — too early to 'remember' clearly — yet something from then might still reach you through the senses.