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“The Knowledge Library”
Knowledge for All, without Barriers…
An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.
“The Knowledge Library”
Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
Knowledge for All, without Barriers…
It turns out, there are plenty of small countries out there. There’s Nauru, the world’s smallest island country. It covers an area of about 13 square miles. And Monaco is even smaller—just over one square mile! It’s home to the world’s largest per …
रामकृष्ण के जीवन में ऐसा उल्लेख है। एक शूद्र महिला ने, रानी रासमणि ने मंदिर बनवाया। चूंकि वह शूद्र थी, उसके मंदिर में कोई ब्राह्मण पूजा करने को राजी न हुआ। हालांकि रासमणि खुद भी कभी मंदिर में अंदर नहीं …
एक बार की बात है। एक तालाब में कई सारे मेढ़क रहते थे। उन मेढ़को में एक राजा मेंढक था। एक दिन सारे मेढक ने कहा, क्यों न कोई प्रतियोगिता खेली जाए। तालाब में एक पेड़ था। राजा मेंढक ने …
बहुत समय पहले हरिशंकर नाम का एक राजा था। उसके तीन पुत्र थे और अपने उन तीनों पुत्रों में से वह किसी एक पुत्र को राजगद्दी सौंपना चाहता था। पर किसे? राजा ने एक तरकीब निकाली और उसने तीनो पुत्रों …
1.HARBOUR (VERB): (आश्रय देना): shelter Synonyms: conceal, hide Antonyms: hand over Example Sentence: He was suspected of harboring an escaped prisoner. 2.SEIZURE (NOUN): (अभिग्रहण): confiscation Synonyms: impounding, commandeering Antonyms: restitution Example Sentence: Cowed by the bold seizure of the leaders, …
बहुत समय पहले की बात है। किसी गाँव में एक किसान रहता था। वह रोज़ भोर में उठकर दूर झरनों से स्वच्छ पानी लेने जाया करता था। इस काम के लिए वह अपने साथ दो बड़े घड़े ले जाता था, …
एक व्यक्ति के तीन साथी थे। उन्होंने जीवन भर उसका साथ निभाया। जब वह मरने लगा तो अपने मित्रों को पास बुलाकर बोला, “अब मेरा अंतिम समय आ गया है। तुम लोगों ने आजीवन मेरा साथ दिया है। मृत्यु के …
What is gender-neutral language? Gender-neutral language is simply a way of talking about people without assuming their gender. For example, it’s referring to someone you don’t know as “they” rather than using the pronoun “he” or “she,” or addressing a group as …
There are many ways to ask this fundamental question, but how you phrase it can imply different things. For example: 1 How are you? This is polite, but it’s not necessarily a serious inquiry about the other person’s well-being. 2 How are you …
A mixed construction is a sentence with incompatible elements that begins with one type of structure and shifts to another type of structure. In these sentences, the speaker sets out to say one thing and abruptly switches to something else, …
Parallel sentence elements in grammar are just like parallel lines in geometry: they face the same direction and never meet. More precisely, in grammar, it’s less about meeting and more about balance. Parallelism in grammar is defined as two or more phrases …
Is “they” singular or plural? The answer is both. As of 2019, most big style guides—including the Associated Press, the Chicago Manual of Style, the MLA style manual, and the APA style manual—accept the usage of the singular they. Whether they approve of it as an …
The passive voice is often maligned by teachers and professors as a bad writing habit. Or, to put it in the active voice, teachers and professors across the English-speaking world malign the passive voice as a bad writing habit. What …
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. Here are the basics: A metaphor states that one thing is another thing It equates …
Let’s use this example to understand what a simile is: A simile is a phrase that uses a comparison to describe. For example, “life” can be described as similar to “a box of chocolates.” You know you’ve spotted one when you see the words like or as in …
What’s an Idiom? Broadly speaking, an idiom is a widely used phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a particular meaning that you would not be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words. The ubiquitous greeting …
Boom! Crunch! Pop! Onomato . . . what? Hard to spell but easy to use, an onomatopoeia (ahn-uh-mat-uh-PEE-uh) is a word that sounds like what it means. If you think for a minute, you can probably come up with lots of examples. Hiss, …