WRITING OF COMPLAINT LETTER (III SEMSETER)

Compliant letter (Model No. 1)

To the Inspector of Police complaining about the theft of your bicycle giving full particulars:

I Cross, Jayanagar,

Bellary.

19^th August, 2014

To

The Inspector of Police,

Cowl Bazaar Police Station,

BELLARY – 583 104.

Sir,

Sub: Theft of my bicycle – reg

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I wish to report the theft of my bicycle on 18^th August, 2014.

I had gone to see the evening show of a film Bahubali at the Royal Cinema Hall. I had kept my bicycle in the cycle-stand. When I came out at 9 pm I could not find my bicycle in the cycle-stand. The man in- charge of the cycle-stand says that he knew nothing about it.

My bicycle is a new one of Atlas Make bearing number G–71475. It is red in colour. My name is engraved on its handle-bar. I hope you will trace the bicycle soon and restore it to me.

Yours faithfully,

Complaint letter (Model No. 2)

To the sub-Inspector of Police drawing his attention to growing thefts in your locality:

12^th ward, Kappagal Road

Bellary.

12^th September, 2014

To

The Sub-Inspector of Police,

Gandhi Nagar Police Station,

BELLARY – 583 101

Sir,

Sub: Increasing incidents of thefts in Kappagal Road – reg.

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I write this in order to invite your kind attention to the alarming increase in the number of thefts and burglaries in the 12^th of ward of Kappagal Road locality. In the course of the past one month more than half a dozen burglaries have taken place here, in quick succession. All these incidents have been duly reported to the police authorities, but for reasons best known to themselves, no concrete steps have been taken in this matter. The residents of this area are naturally alarmed over the state of affairs and are forced to spend sleepless nights. So I request you to intensify the patrolling in this area to curb the menace of thefts.

Thanking you, Sir.

Yours faithfully,

Complaint letter (Model No. 3)

To the Chief-Engineer of the Electricity Board complaining about frequent power breakdown in your area:

15, Tilak Nagar,

Bellary.

15^th August, 2014

To

The Chief Engineer,

Karnataka Electricity Board,

BELLARY – 583 104

Sir,

Sub: Frequent breakdown of power in Tilak Nagar, Bellary – reg.

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I would like to draw your attention to the inconvenience caused to the residents of Tilak Nagar, Bellary by frequent breakdown in electricity supply. On average, the electricity goes off three to five times a day for periods ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Even when there is supply there is the problem of low voltage. As a result of this unsteady supply of electricity, many electric appliances just do not function.

With the examinations round the corner, the students are the worst affected in this situation. As the power goes off frequently at night, they are unable to prepare for their examinations. The heat of the summer and mosquitoes make nights without electricity miserable.

We have complained several times to the officials at the local office but to no avail. We trust you that you will take necessary action to ensure proper electricity supply to this area.

Thanking you, Sir.

Yours faithfully,

 Complaint letter (Model no. 4)

To the municipal authorities in your city about the problems posed by stray dogs and need to tackle them in an effective manner:

171, Adarsh Nagar,

Bellary.

14^th July, 2014

To

The Commissioner,

Bellary City Corporation,

BELLARY – 583 104

Sir,

Sub: Stray dogs menace – reg.

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I would like to draw your attention to the havoc created by the stray dogs in our locality. There is a pack of stray dogs roaming about freely in the locality and posing a frightening threat to the people. Their numbers have been increasing with steady pace. They become aggressive in the evenings. They bark and bite at the passers-by, particularly children. Already ten people have become their victims. At night they bark loudly and disturb the sleep of the residents. I urge your goodself to look into this matter and take necessary steps to put an end to the problem quickly and effectively.

Thanking you, Sir.   

Yours faithfully,

Complaint letter (Model no. 5)

To the Postmaster about the irregular delivery of letters:

17, Sanganakallu,

Bellary

9^th July, 2014

To

The Postmaster,

Gandhi Nagar Post-Office,

Bellary – 583 103

Sir,

Sub: Irregular delivery of post – reg.

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I would like to bring to your notice the inconvenience caused to the residents of Sanganakallu due to irregular delivery of mail. Since the new postman is assigned to this area he is able to deliver the post only on alternative days. This particular postman is inefficient and disrespectful. He often delivers the letters to the wrong addresses. And he seldom puts the letters in the letter boxes provided in front of many houses, but carelessly throws them in front of the gate or hands them over to the children. As a result important letters are often lost or misplaced. I also doubt if he delivers all the letters at all. There are numerous complaints of non-receipt of postal articles. I am sure you will instruct the concerned postman to be careful in future.

Thanking you, sir.

Yours faithfully, 

Complaint letter (Model no. 6)

Write a letter to a newspaper, commenting on reckless driving.

3-4-150, Post Office Road,

Bellary,

December 15, 2014

To

The Editor,

The Deccan Herald,

Bengaluru.

Sir,

I shall be obliged if you publish the following in your columns.

It is painful to see a number of deaths on the streets, due to rash driving. Especially lorry/truck drivers are in the habit of driving at a great speed. It is a danger to the lives of the people. Sometimes children are knocked down by recklessly driven lorries/trucks.

Accidents are almost of daily occurrence. The drivers, who are responsible for this, escape with greater speed. Yesterday I saw a beggar was run over by a lorry. No trace of the driver could be found. Even if the driver is caught the punishment is light. As a result the drivers are continuing this practice.

So, I request the authorities concerned to tackle this problem with a firm hand.  Unless this is done, a number of people become poor victims to the rash driving of drivers.

Yours truly,

           Mohan Kumar

Complaint letter (Model no. 7)

Write a letter to a newspaper appealing for the cyclone victims

8 – 16; Venkateshwara Colony,

Machilipatnam,

December 2, 2014

To

The Editor

The Indian Express,

Vijayawada

Sir,

I have just returned from the coastal villages which are badly hit by tidal waves. It is a ghastly night. Thousands of people lost their lives. Lakhs of cattle perished. Standing crops in thousands of acres were lost. The sight of these who lost everything-near, dear, and property, makes a heart rending tale. One finds ocean of tears. Their plight is unimaginable.

Through these columns I appeal to one and all to contribute their mite to wipe out the tears of men and women. They are in need of our active support. So, let us do our best, in a humble way, to relieve their misery.

Sir, I request you to start a relief fund and invite the readers to contribute liberally to alleviate the ocean of misery.

Yours truly,

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The Living and the Dead – Rabindranath Tagore

The Living and the Dead - Rabindranath Tagore

# Describe the unfortunate set of incidents and cicumstances in the life Kadambini and how did she estrange herself to the family with whom was living.

Rabindranath Tagore is India’s greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius that the country has produced. He, being a versatile writer, produced a number of songs, stories, plays essays, novels, memories and travelogues. He was both a restless innovator and a superb craftsman and the Bengali language attained great power and beauty in his hands. He created his own style of dance drama and is one of the most important visual artists of modern India. He had founded Santiniketan (the Abode of Peace) near Bolapua School being turned into an International University named Viswabharathi University in 1921. He won the Nobel Prize for literature for Gitanjali in 1913 and he at once became a World Celebrity.

 Summary:

The present story ‘The Living and the Dead’ is a focus on the theme of death. The story is based on Kadambini’s family with unfortunate set of incidents and circumstances. The friendship between Kadambini and Jogamaya make the story fresh in the minds of the readers. 

The story begins with the introduction of Sharadashankar Babu’s family, the Zamindar of Ranihat in which there is a young widow called Kadambini. She had no living relatives on her father’s side and even her in-laws family too. All of them have died one by one sooner or later. There was only a nephew – her brother-in-law Shardashanker’s son who was an apple of Kadambini’s eyes. Soon after the death of the child’s mother, Kadambini looked after the child as if it was her own son. All the affections were bestowed on the child until one were on the child until one monsoon night Kadambini died.

Without making undue ceremony to the departed soul, the dead body was sent straight away to the cremation ground by the employing four Brahmin labourers of Sharadashankar. Though the Ranihat cremation ground was far away from the town, it consisted of little hut beside a pond and a banyan tree. The four men assigned for the cremation work waited for the pyre wood to be brought. After too long waiting, two of them departed to see what the cause for the delay was. Only Bindu was left before the corpse when Banamali had gone to the town to fetch tobacco.

In the midst of the thick clouds and lightening and raining Bindu had experienced something unusual – the littar on which the dead body was placed began to move. In terror Bindu had run off to the village leaving the corpse in the hut itself. All the four employees came back to the cremation ground and found that the corpse was missing and the litter was empty. The four members have decided to report to the Zamindar that the body had indeed been cremated. Here Tagore asserts the truth that dead person revitalizing life again. The ghost of Kadambini was regaining conscious stage. Very often she constantly thinks about her affectionate child and was ready to go home. The next moment she considers that since she was no longer alive, her family members could not accepted her. Moreover, they would be surprised to see Kadambini’s ghost coming back. She recalled to her memory Sharadashanker’s brightly lit home and compared her present solitariness in this dark and dissolute place of death.

Kadambini started going on and on till her feet ached and body felt week and exhausted. She crossed field after field with the first loght of dawn. She reached a nearby village. Kadambini with her muddy clothes, rapt state and crazed sleepless appearance, faced man coming up to her and he enquired her and her family. Suddenly she thought about her childhood friend – jogmaya the best and the dearest friend. She told the stranger that she had to go to Shripati charman Babu’s house of Nischindipura. The gentleman agreed that anyhow on his way to Calcutta Nischindrapura was a shortdistance. So he decided to escort Kadambini to Shripati’s house.

Jogamaya was pleased to see her friend after a long gap. The two friends exchanged a few words and Kadambaini pleaded before Jogamaya to provide a place in a corner of her house and accept her as a maid. For a month’s stay in Jogamaya’s house, Shripati Charman – Jogamaya’s husband wanted to know all about the illtrated childless widow – Kadambini and her in-laws. So he decided to proceed to Ranihat and make personnal enquires about Kadambini. 

In the course of the two friends’ conversation, Jogamaya strongly announced that keeping custody of a married woman of another household doesn’t look nice. So Jogamaya had decided to send her out in the absence of her husband for which Kadambini though strongly refused to go, yet she simply moved away with a pensive expression. 

Shripati returned home late at night and narrated the whole story of a Kadambini that Jofgamaya old friend was dead. The husband and wife went on arguing for a long time unti they came to know that Kadambini was there in the next room. Shripati mentioned before his wife that the evening before Kadambini’s arrival to their house, the door swung open and the sudden gust of wind blew out the lamp. In the darkness Kadambini entered into the house of Jogmaya when there was continuous outpouring of rain. She addressed to Jogamaya that her friend Kadambini is no longer alive but she is dead. Having said this she left the house and proceeded to Ranihat. She hid all day in a ruined temple hungry alone. An untimely dusk spread over the monsoon sky and the villagers hurried home far the fear of approaching storm. She entered into her married home with fully veiled and the servants of the house let her pass. In the midst of heavy rains and buffeting wind Kadambini slipped past the women and entered the room where the sick boy, Sathish was fast asleep. The sick boy turned over and asked his Kakima for water for which Kadambini felt very happy to see that he child asking for the aunt. With great rejoice she hurriedly poured out a glass of water and helped him to drink. The child put his arms round her neck and asked ‘Kakima were you dead. Kakima go away”. He screamed.

Kadambini realized that she was not really dead. She pleaded before Didi (Shardashankar’s wife) why are all of you frightened to see me? “ I am what I always was” As a result the mistress of the house fell sown and fainted. At the moment Sharadashankar appeared and pleaded before Kadambini that why all this? Satish is the only son of ours why have you cast your evil eye on him? Kadambini made it clear that she was mot dead proving tae bell metal bowl as the evidence that she was alive. She struck it against her head repeatedly and as a result blood poured out. Kadambini only screaming that she was not dead. Not and not dead. She ran out of the room and down stairs and threw herself into the backyard pond. From upstairs room Sharadashankar heard the splash.

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Refund — One Act Play: (III Semester Basic English)

Refund - the one-act play is an unusual story. A student who was a bad performer in school comes back to the school as a young man and wants a refund of all the fees that he paid. He jeers his professors, calling them names and tells them that they were as much “good for nothings” as he was and since he did not derive any value from them, it is only rightful that he be paid back all his tuition. He also threatens the school with legal action if they don’t return his money. The Principal is livid, but the Maths teacher sizes up the situation quickly and proposes a solution.
 

She says that each of the teachers would administer an oral quiz to him and if he gets even one question right, then he is deemed to have passed all his exams and so he will not be entitled to any refund, otherwise he can be given a refund if he fails to answer ALL of the questions correctly. According to her plan, every professor should ask him two questions – one easy and the other hard. The young man agrees to this proposition since he is determined to get his money and so he looks forward to answering every question incorrectly even if he knows the right answers to some or all of them. So, one by one, the teachers quiz him – the Biology professor, the English professor, the Chemistry professor and the Physics professor but he answers all of them incorrectly and is quite delighted at the progress he is making. The Principal feels uneasy but the Maths professor assures her that she can handle it. Finally it is the turn of the Maths professor. She says she is going to ask him the easy question first.

Her first question is, “If we represent the speed of light by X and the distance of the star Sirius from the Sun by Y, what is the circumference of a one-hundred-and-nine-sided regular polyhedron whose surface area coincides with that of the hip-pocket of a state railway employee, whose wife has been deceiving him for two years and eleven months with a regimental sergeant major of hussars”.

The young man is flummoxed with this question but recovers quickly and says “28 apricots” as the answer. There is tension in the air as the Principal and other Professors look expectantly in the direction of the Maths Professor, who coolly says that it is the wrong answer and that the correct answer is 27 apricots. The young man is greatly relieved and looks extremely happy in flunking this quiz. The Maths teacher turns around to the horrified Principal and coolly says that the young man is right about asking his fees back and that the school should refund him.

The Maths teacher turns to the young man and asks him how much the school owes him. Overjoyed at the prospect of getting some money, the young man goes over each year and the fees for that year in detail and comes up with the final amount the school owes him. All along as he is counting mentally and saying what is due to him, the Maths teacher writes the figures down on a piece of paper and calculates the total. Finally the teacher acknowledges to the young man that his mental arithmetic adds up correctly. The young man says that they can bet on it since he has it all worked out.

That is when the Maths Professor drops the bombshell that her asking him what the school owed him was her “hard” question and that since he got it right, he has now passed his course with flying colors and so the school doesn’t owe him anything now. That is when the young man realizes that he has been tricked and as he prepares to leave the school in disgust, he is mocked at by each of the professors in turn. 

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