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प्रश्न
Go to your college library and collect and read the poems written by Sarojini Naidu.
उत्तर
The students can read the following poems by Sarojini Naidu:
- A Love Song from the North
- A Rajput Love Song
- Alabaster
- An Indian Love Song
- Autumn Song
Notes
[Note: The above activity students will do themselves]
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Punctuation
Use capital letter, full stops, question marks, commas and inverted commas wherever necessary in the following paragraph. an arrogant lion was wandering though the jungle one day he asked the tiger who is stronger than you you O lion replied the tiger who is more fierce than a leopard asked the lion you sir replied the leopard he marched upto an elephant and asked the same question the elephant picked him up in his trunk swung him in the air and threw him down look said the lion there is no need to get mad just because you don’t know the answer.
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Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun
To give it my loving friends to keep!
Naught man could do,have I left undone:
And you see my harvest, what I reap
This very day, now a year is run.
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| river | |
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| 3. Producer | |
| 4. Music-director | |
| 5. Script-writer | |
| 6. Lyrist | |
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| 8. Cinematographer | |
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