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 Pearl S Buck has a humanistic attitude to problems of life. She felt that while nations were at war, individuals were humans. 'The Enemy' tells us about a Japanese doctor who hates the Americans because of his patiotism. Dr. Sadao Hoki, a Japanese surgeon and scientist, lived with his wife Hana and had two children at the sea-coast. His house was located on the sea coast where he had spent his childhood. When he was twenty two Sadao Hoki was sent to America to study surgery and medicine. Sadao became a famous scientist and surgeon. he returned to serve his nation and people. Even though there was a war going on Dr. Sadao was not sent as he was perfecting a discovery on wounds and the old general might need him for an operation. Dr. Sadao got married to Hana whom he met in America. they had two children. Hana was a Japanese lady and had full faith in Japanese values and customs. She was a sympathetic lady.One night as the two of them stood in verandah, they something being wash...

 Louis Fischer was a Jewish-American journalist, who wrote the book 'Life of Mahatma Gandhi'. this story 'Indigo' is an excerpt from the book.This story describes how Gandhiji struggled for the poor peasants of Champaran. This is a true incident in that took place in Gandhi's life in the year 1967. the story takes us to the phase of the British Rule in India, when Gandhiji attended the Annual Convention of the Indian Congress in 1916, a poor peasant named Rajkumar Shukla approached Gandhiji. he requested Gandhi to accompany him to Champaran to solve the miseries of the poor farmers living there. Rajkumar Shukla was one of the share-croppers of Champaran, who had come to appeal against the injustice of the landlord system in Bihar. the peasant accompanied Gandhi wherever he went and begged him to visit Champaran. In due course Gandhiji got impressed with his determination, so he asked the peasant to meet him in Calcutta.  At the decided date/day both of them boarded ...

Kamala das was an Indian English poet who recalls a trip to Cochin from her holiday at her parents' house. It was a Friday morning and that morning she was driving with her mother next to her on the front seat. She was observing her mother who had fallen asleep with her mouth slightly open. She could see her mom's face pale and resembled to the nearly white face like that of a dead body. She then realises that her mother was no longer young and had started to look very old. This was very hard for her to accept so, she tried to shift her focus on something else. She turned her face away from her mom and looked outside the window of the car. She started looked at the trees they crossed while driving. It seemed to her that the tress were running at full speed past her because of the moving car. It seemed that those tresses would have been young of they could move at such a fast pace. She also saw some enthusiast children coming out of their houses to play with fill excitement. Aft...