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UNIT 2 : Ancient Tales

1) Yudhisthira's Wisdom  Source: The Mahabharata
2) The Brave Little Parrot  Buddhist Legend
3) Ahab and Naboth  Source: The Holy Bible
4) If Not Higher  I.L Peretz
5) Phaedo  Plato
6) The Cricket  P' u Sung-Ling
7)The Sword of Damocles  Source: Greek Legend

UNIT 3: Education

8) The Library Card  Richard Wright
9) Why Go To University?  Moti Nissani
10) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!  Richard P. Feynman with Ralph Leighton
11) The Good Example  Vicente Riva Palacio
12) A 1996 Commencement Speech    Salman Rushdie

UNIT 4: Action and Consequences

13) Shep's Hobby         James Herriot
14) A Sound of Thunder   Ray Bradbury


UNIT 5: Television

15) The Wretched Stone  Van Allsburg
16) Curbing the One Eyed Monster  Fiona C. Jenkins
18)  TV Can Be a Good Parent  Ariel Gore

UNIT 6: Cross Cultural Bridges

19) Marriage is a private affair Chinua Achebe
20) The Cabuliwallah  Rabindranath Tagore
21) Then and Now: Finding My Voice  Elaine H. Kim

UNIT 7: Cultural Anthropology

23)  Life without Chiefs   Marvin Harris
24) Life is Sweet at Kumansenu  Abioseh Nicol

UNIT 8 : The Human Condition

25) Adaptive Failure: Easters End  Jared Diamond
26) How Sane Are We? Anuradha Chaudhary
27) The Lunatic  Laxmi Prasad Devkota
28) GAIA    Shreedhar Prasad Lohani

UNIT 9: Natural Science

29) The Four Tusked Elephant     Armand Denis
30) The Making of a Scientist  V. S. Ramachandran
31) Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test  Carl Hempel
32) To Know a Fly  Vincent Dethier

UNIT 10: Humor and Satire

33) King John and the Abbot of Canterbury  Anonymous
34) Third Thoughts             E.V Lucas
35) Science and the Spirits     John Tyndall

UNIT 11: Critical and Creative Thinking

36) The Stub Book  Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
37) Mr. Know All  W. Somerset Maugham 
38)  Keeping Errors at Bay  Bertrand Russel
39) Nine Puzzles(for self study only, not for exam)
40) “What Is Intelligence, Anyway?”  Isaac Asimov


UNIT 12: Drama

41) Swan Song  Anton Chekhov


UNIT 13: Love

42)  To His Coy Mistress  Andrew Marvell
43) Piano  D.H. Lawrence
44) The Telegram on the Table  Parashu Pradhan
45)  A painful case  James Joyce


UNIT 14: Life and Death

46)  The Great Answer  Fulton Oursler
47) A Tale  B.P. Koirala
48) Stopping by woods on a snowy evening    Robert Frost
49) Ethics  Linda Pasta
50) Where the Mind is Without Fear  Rabindranath Tagore


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