1. The Last Lesson

 Content: The story reflects on the themes of linguistic nationalism and the consequences of losing one's language.

 Objective: Understand the significance of language in identity and culture, and the emotional impact of colonialism.

 2. Lost Spring

 Content: Highlights the exploitation of children in India, focusing on child labor and poverty.

 Objective: Study social issues like child labor, poverty, and their effects on education and childhood.

 3. Deep Water

 Content: Describes the author’s fear of water and how he overcame it through determination.

 Objective: Learn the value of perseverance, overcoming fear, and building selfconfidence.

 4. The Rattrap

 Content: A symbolic story about a peddler who learns the value of kindness and redemption.

 Objective: Explore themes of compassion, human dignity, and the moral awakening of an individual.

 5. Indigo

 Content: Chronicles Mahatma Gandhi’s fight for the indigo farmers in Champaran against British oppression.

 Objective: Understand the importance of Gandhi’s principles of nonviolence and justice in the Indian independence movement.

 6. Poets and Pancakes

 Content: A satirical take on the functioning of a film studio in Madras during the 1950s.

 Objective: Study the contrast between glamour and the mundane work in the film industry.

 7. The Interview

 Content: Discusses the relevance, ethics, and impacts of interviews in modern society.

 Objective: Understand the nature of interviews as a form of communication and the role they play in public life.

 8. Going Places

 Content: Focuses on a young girl’s fantasies about a glamorous life and her eventual realization of reality.

 Objective: Explore the conflict between dreams and reality, and the effects of escapism.

 9. My Mother at SixtySix

 Content: A reflective poem about the poet’s emotional response to her aging mother.

 Objective: Study themes of aging, separation, and the inevitability of loss.

 10. Keeping Quiet

 Content: A poem encouraging introspection and silence as a means of achieving peace and unity.

 Objective: Understand the importance of meditation, self-reflection, and global harmony.

 11. A Thing of Beauty

 Content: The poem emphasizes the everlasting joy and solace that beauty provides in a world full of sorrows.

 Objective: Appreciate the relationship between beauty, joy, and mental peace.

 12. A Roadside Stand

 Content: Describes the plight of poor rural people who depend on selling goods at a roadside stand, ignored by city people.

 Objective: Analyze themes of economic disparity and rural neglect.

 13. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

 Content: The poem reflects the constraints placed on women by a patriarchal society and the desire for freedom.

 Objective: Study feminist themes, women’s struggles, and the contrast between strength and oppression.