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The LangLit Monthly| January 2017


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sr. No.

Content Page No.

1 I am a woman!!

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2 Another Year

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3 The Rocking Angel

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4 Choices

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5 Vocabulary booster

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6 Colored Toys – A poem by

Rabindranath Tagore from his book Gitanjali

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7 Fly High 9

8 A Glance of Yours!! 10

9 10 Interesting Facts about

Languages

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10 Answer to vocabulary booster 12

11 January Acta Diurna-Dedicated to John Donne

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I am a Woman!! Ms. Prachika Rehni

I am a woman

Yes! I am

With many relationships to shoulder

I stand rock hard as a boulder

My heart warm with culture and traditions

My head strong with soaring ambitions

I am a woman

Yes! I am

I do not fear, so do not scare

With social inequalities and injustices

Telling me I am a mere woman!

Do not tell me I should be at home

That after dusk I should not roam

I should come out of my reverie

To think of insecurity and slavery

That I am to be objectified

For the people with brains nullified

Yes I am a woman

I proudly say

And for your narrow ideas

I will not repay.


Another Year…

Ms. Poonam Nanda

I still move out with a fear,

to pursue my career,

I still have to ask in the ear,

What to and what not to wear,

They still think that I’m insincere,

and have to act under the pressure of near & dear,

I still have to think twice before, I can freely cheer,

I can’t understand why they all interfere,

I’m aware it’s just a premier,

and the whole picture is not clear,

Yes, my dear,

It’s another year….


The Rocking Angel

Dr. Disha Khanna

A lil creation of flesh and bone

Taking a spree to guard her father’s throne.

Tossing and fluttering hither and thither

With her endless and timeless chatter.

Always with a cheerful and flamboyant visage

This apple of the family is there with a message.

Let and live, forget and forgive

Was the life mantra of this sprig.

Being endlessly bubbly and chirruping

The hearts die for her musings.

The smartian creation of God Almighty

Is assuredly there to rock the world uprightly.


Choices

Ms. Parvanshi Sharma

Seasons have passed yet followed by effects

For the choices brought wrath and some became assets.

Certainly there are complaints lying under the quest

But grateful to God for there are no regrets.

I was at war amidst for-others and for-itself

I selected a path but destiny was preset.

I came up as a being who is now in-itself

I certainly drew complaints, again not regrets.

In all up-coming wars I am ready to select

For I would not put the blame on context and pretext.

Sartre aptly avers we are condemned to be free

We cannot move on denying what we breed.


Vocabulary Booster

Courtesy: Mr. Amandeep Ahluwalia

1.) Too long already had the young General...............

(a.) Rush (b.) Assurance (c.) Dormant (d.) Dally

2.) Being alone, she ate slowly, and deliberately............. over the meal, to kill time.

(a.) Derelict (b.) Sleuth (c.) Deject (d.) Dawdle

3.) In those arid deserts, they suffered from thirst as well as from...........of provisions

(a.) Thwart (b.) Dearth (c.) Cauterize (d.) Alienate

4.) Many examples show that what physicians once accepted as truth has been totally..............

(a.) Debunk (b.) Emphatic (c.) Fluster (d.) Fatal

5.) These cases, extreme as they are, do not justify, in my judgment, the conclusion ............. from them.

(a.) Deduce (b.) Fallow (c.) Familial (d.) Extricate

6.) Doesn't King know he is going to be smeared and ..............for these hearings no matter what?

(a.)Foible (b.)Loved (c.) Defamed (d.)Praised

7.) Gold's has found that its express gyms fit well in spaces vacated by ............or shrinking retailers.

(a.) Fatal (b.) Falter (c.) Defunct (d.) Facsimile

8.) In my country, about 70 percent of the citizens are 30 years old or younger, and there are

similar .................. in many other developing countries.

(a.) Demographic (b.) Flux (c.)Enigma (d.)Fallacy

9.) The life-size bronze statue.............. Shannon Stone and his young son wearing baseball caps.

(a.) Depict (b.) Defunct (c.) Extricate (d.)Evanescent

10.) The ...............of the words courteous and courtesy from court is obvious.

(a.) Derivation (b.) Dissident (c.) Disposable (d.) Expectation


Colored Toys – A poem by Rabindranath Tagore from

his book Gitanjali

Courtesy: Mr. Bhupinder Kumar

When I bring to you colored toys, my child,

I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water,

and why flowers are painted in tints

---when I give colored toys to you, my child.

When I sing to make you dance

I truly now why there is music in leaves,

and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth

---when I sing to make you dance.

When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands

I know why there is honey in the cup of the flowers

and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice

---when I bring sweet things to your greedy hands.

When I kiss your face to make you smile, my darling,

I surely understand what pleasure streams from the sky in morning light,

and what delight that is that is which the summer breeze brings to my body

---when I kiss you to make you smile.


Fly High

Ms. Shilpa Khosla

I see the sun rise

Which brings calmness to my eyes

I feel I have new hopes

Which gives wings to my goals

I see far off in the sky

And promise myself to fly high

Leaving behind all the troubles

I am set to do wonders

I see the sunshine

Which brings calmness to my eyes


A Galance of Yours!! Ms. Kamini Verma

I don’t want others to reign my soul

For this I have to put my senses under control

But when I get a glance of yours

My heart rambles in mist and forgets its ultimate goal.

I don’t want to love again

‘coz I am not strong enough to bear the pain


My feelings bloom like a bud without any restrain.

I don’t want be thine

It’s not your fault it was all mine


My body turns into a crystal which shines.

I don’t want to cry

But without you my life is bleak and dry


My soul wants to say this hypocritical world goodbye!!


10 Interesting Facts about Languages Courtesy: Ms. Navdeep Kaur

1. There are 2,700 languages with over 7,000 individual dialects spoken around the world today. The most widely

spoken languages are Chinese, Spanish, English, and Hindi, in that order.

2. Every two weeks, another language dies. Or, perhaps, a dialect. There are over 231 completely extinct

languages and 2,400 of the world's languages are considered to be in danger of dying out.

3. The Bible is the most widely translated book available in 2,454 different languages. Pinnochio is a close second.

But the world's most translated author is Agatha Christie.

4. The language with the largest alphabet in the world belongs to the Cambodian language Khmer and is 74

characters long. The shortest alphabet is 12 characters long, and belongs to Rotokas. The language with the most

words, however, is English, boasting over 250,000 words.

5. Over 300 languages are spoken in the United States, but South Africa holds the record for the country with the

most official languages (11). Of the population of the United States, 21 percent of citizens five years and older

speak another language at home. Of that 21 percent, 62 percent speak Spanish. And of those Spanish speakers, 56

percent speak English very well.

6. The oldest known languages include Sanskrit, Sumerian, Hebrew, and Basque. But, the only reason we really

know this is because there is a written record of those languages. The answer to the question, “What is the oldest

language?” can never truly be answered, as it doesn’t take spoken languages with oral traditions into

consideration.

7. Learning a second language can make you smarter. A number of scientists agree that becoming polyglot can

boost your brainpower. Other studies also suggest that speaking more than one language can help to slow down

the aging process of the mind.

8. Languages are constantly influencing each other. For example, the English language is, in itself almost 30%

French, as it has adopted words through lexical borrowings. This is particularly true when we think about ballet, as

almost all of the words that describe that style of dance are in French.

9. There are over 200 artificial languages that have been invented for books, television, and movies, including 13

distinct languages in the Tolkien universe. But "fake" languages date back centuries when languages were

invented for the purposes of philosophical debate.

10. Despite that, onomatopoeias are not shared across languages. Rice Krispies in the United States go ‘snap,

crackle, and pop.' But in Germany, they go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!’ In France, they go ‘Cric! Crac! Croc!’ and in

Spain, they go ‘Cris! Cras! Cros!’

Bees don’t buzz in Afrikaans, they go ‘zoem-zoem’. And while cats say “meow” in America, they say “meo-meo” in

Vietnam, “nau” in Estonia, and “ngjau” in Malay.

Thai owls say “hook hook” instead of “hoot”, and Albanian pigs don’t say “oink”, they say “hunk hunk.”


Answer Key 1.) Dally 2.) Dawdle 3.) Dearth 4.) Debunk 5.) Deduce

6.) Defame 7.) Defunct 8.) Demographic 9.) Depict 10.) Derivation

January Acta Diurna-Dedicated to John Donne

The third edition of the Literary Wall “Acta Diurna” of the Faculty of Liberal Arts was launched and the

endeavours were taken by the students of B.A. Honours School in English. The wall for the month is

dedicated to John Donne, a pre-eminent representative of metaphysical poets. His works are noted for

their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires

and sermons. Vice-Chancellor Sir appreciated the efforts done by the students.

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