Class XI Elective


Content

Short Story

  1. The Lament - Anton Chekhov
  2. A Pair of Mustachios - Mulk Raj Anand
  3. The Rocking-horse Winner - D.H.Lawrence
  4. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs - Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. Pappachi’s Moth - Arundhati Roy
  6. The Third and Final Continent - Jhumpa Lahiri
  7. Glory at Twilight - Bhabani Bhattacharya
  8. The Luncheon - William Somerset Maugham

Poetry

  1. The Peacock - Sujata Bhatt
  2. Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds - William Shakespeare
  3. Coming - Philip Larkin
  4. Telephone Conversation - Wole Soyinka
  5. The World is too Much With Us - William Wordsworth
  6. Mother Tongue - Padma Sachdev
  7. Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes
  8. For Elkana - Nissim Ezekiel
  9. Refugee Blues - W. H. Auden
  10. Felling of the Banyan Tree - Dilip Chitre
  11. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
  12. Ajamil and the Tigers - Arun Kolatkar

Essays


  1. My Watch - Mark Twain
  2. My Three Passions - Bertrand Russell
  3. Patterns of Creativity - S.Chandrasekhar
  4. Tribal Verse - G.N.Devy
  5. What is a Good Book? - John Ruskin
  6. The Story - E.M.Forster
  7. Bridges - Kumudini Lakhia

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