Laugh and be Merry John Edward Masefield ADDITIONAL ENGLISH NOTES  UNIT-3 POETRY  John Masetid, John Edward Masefield -Laugh and be merry.  Introduction 1 John Masetid-Laugh and be merry Introduction John Edward Masefield OM 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet, novelist, dramatist and journalist, writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. John Masefield's literary career was rich and varied, and although his reputation waned in later years, he is again being recognized for his wide range, encompassing ballads, nature poetry and mythological narrative, and for his attempt to make poetry a popular art. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and "Sea-Fever"    Born                  1 June 1878 Ledbury, Herefordshire, England  Died        ...

  A.K.Ramanujan-Obituar  ADDITIONAL ENGLISH NOTES UNIT-3 POETRY A.K.Ramanujan-Obituar (  a notice of a death in the newspaper  ) Introduction Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an  Indian   poet ,  scholar , professor,  philologist ,  folklorist  ( fok/lorist ),  translator , and  playwright . of  Indian literature  who wrote in both  English  and  Kannada . His academic research ranged across five languages: English,  Kannada ,  Tamil ,  Telugu , and  Sanskrit .   Born                                    16 March 1929  Mysore ,  Princely State of Mysore ,  British India Died            ...

  Science and Human life J.B.S.Haldane Introduction J.B.S.Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane ( hal · dayn ) 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British scientist and polymath who contributed significantly to physiology, genetics, biochemistry, statistics, biometry, cosmology, and philosophy, although he himself possessed no formal qualifications in any branch of science. His early science training was provided by his father, Oxford University physiologist J. S. Haldane, and the rest was self-taught.and  mathematics . With innovative use of  statistics in biology , he was one of the founders of  neo-Darwinism . Born                     5 November 1892  Oxford , England Died                      1 December 1964 (aged...

  Science and Human life Explanation  Additional English According to the writer, work,  freedom of speech, health and friend  are the four general human needs Science is involved in  cooking, eating, breathing, driving, playing, etc . The fabric we wear, the brush and paste we use, the shampoo, the talcum powder, the oil we apply, everything is the consequence of advancement of science. Life is unimaginable without all this, as it has become a necessity.   Haldane says To help the surgeons make us fit. Haldane died on 1 December 1964 in Bhubaneswar. He willed that his body be  used for medical research and teaching at the Rangaraya Medical  College, Kakinada   His most important contribution to science was  the mathematical theory of evolution  which combined the evolutionary process defined by Darwin and the science of genetics founded by Mendel. Haldane moved from London to live and work in India in 1957. Scientific knowledge...

  The Heritage of India A.L.Basham Part 2 Languages and literature The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit ...   Epics The  Mahābhārata  and the  Rāmāyaṇa  are the oldest preserved and well-known epics of India. Versions have been adopted as the epics of Southeast Asian countries like Philippines, Thailand, Malay...