In India, we have six different seasons each having its characteristic features. They come one after another. The rainy season comes after the scorching heat of summer. In India, it generally begins from the middle of June and lasts till the end of September. I like rainy season very much.
Rainy season is the lifeline of the flora and fauna on earth. For humans, it brings respite from heat and acute water shortage. Plants, shrivelled by the parched earth and the unforgiving Sun, get their much-needed water as the rains begin to fall. In the rainy season, the sky is generally covered with clouds. On some occasions during the rainy season, it rain continuously for days together. Rivers and canals, dried by the summer heat, get filled with water. Nature seems to get a new charming face with the advent of this season.
Sometimes, breathtakingly beautiful rainbow arches across the sky. It fades off in minutes leaving the children gaping in wonder and sadness. We see lush green grass, trees and paddy fields. Farmers, who await the first rains anxiously, start their brisk activities in the fields. Mother earth gets ready to give us a fresh bumper harvest. The countryside looks so colourful.
Many great poets in the past like Kalidas were fascinated by the bewitching beauty of Nature in this season. They composed fantastic poems eulogizing the rainy season.
Some important festivals are observed in this season. The Car Festival, Raksha Bandhan, Ganesh Puja, etc. are some of the important festivals that bring cheer and hope to all of us. People from far and wide come to Puri to witness the Car Festival. On Raksha Baildhan sisters tie Rakhi around the wrists of their brothers to ensure their safety and security.
Hydro-electric power stations run in full capacity generating power. The thunder and lightning in the overcast sky drive fear into the minds of children. They cling to their mothers as the roar and the blinding light shock and awe them.
No doubt, the rainy season brings devastating floods, but the misery is generally short-lived. After the flood, soil becomes more fertile, and agriculture gets a major boost. Colourful flowers in plants and creepers sway in the wind. Forest floors become a beehive of activity as the dry leaves rot providing food for myriad species of animals, tiny, small and large. Vegetable shops overflow with cheap and fresh vegetables. So it is said that, “No rain, no grain.”
Despite the muddy roads, swarming insects, damp walls and the inconvenience of going to school, I like the rains because it falls from Heaven to sustain life on earth. The copious rains seep and recharge our ground water ensuring plentiful drinking water for us for the rest of the year. This is why I adore the Rainy Season most. ———————————————END————————————–
The media of written war reporting are newspapers, magazines, and now, the virtual
texts available on the internet. Each medium has its own poesis or approach to
writing; variables such as deadline dates, frequency of publication, editorial policy
and etiquette, amount of space devoted to the story, and the availability of
illustration result in pieces ranging from the urgently laconic to the leisurely
reflective, from the briefly factual to the complexly opinionated, from the quirkily
personal to the broadly synoptic. (Television and radio war journalism have their
own set of variables.) But despite these variations, modern war correspondence,
from its beginnings, has had a primary objective–to achieve believability through
an ethos (the Aristotelian term for persuasive appeal located in character) based on
autopsy or firsthand experience. It is this objective that underlies the practice that
was in its infancy in 1808 when the London Times sent Henry Crabb Robinson to
Spain to report on the British forces fighting the Peninsular War. The first conflict to
which American newspapers sent correspondents on a significant scale was the
Mexican War. Indeed, newspaper proprietors such as George Wilkins Kendall,
founder of the New Orleans Picayune, actually agitated for the conflict in the first
place. John Hohenberg observes that, “it was the fashion for correspondents to
prove their daring by fighting rather than sit on the sidelines as non-combatants”
and proving his proximity to the action, Kendall, one of forty correspondents in
Mexico, captured a Mexican Cavalry flag, was mentioned twice in dispatches, and
was wounded in the knee.
Though newspaper articles about war lack the true dialogic nature implied by the
etymology of ‘correspondence’, their epistolary qualities suggest the necessary
mutual confidence of the reader-war reporter relationship . The importance of
maintaining this confidence is evident in an anecdote told by Emmet Crozier, who,
in 1918, was working on The New York Globe and nursing a desire to go to France
as a war correspondent. A colleague brought Crozier ‘odd fragments’ about the war,
‘secondhand’ material some of which Crozier suspected was fabricated, but which
represented his only chance to be a war correspondent. After the war, Crozier
discovered that all the material was fabricated and felt that a dirty trick had been
played on Globe readers and on the integrity of journalism.
The reader-war reporter relationship, then, is founded on a credibility/ closeness
ratio. Next to proximity in importance is priority. News of war, in other words, must
be fast as well as accurate. Legendary ‘scoops’ include Marguerite Duras reaching
Dachau for the Herald Tribune before the American troops arrived; Doon Campbell
getting first to the Normandy beaches for Reuters; Max Hastings of the London
Evening Standard walking first into Port Stanley in 1982; Bob McKeown making
the first live broadcast for CBS from Kuwait City in 1991; and, in the war in
Afghanistan, John Simpson ‘liberating’ Kabul for the BBC. Such ‘firsts’ themselves
become the ‘peg’ or ‘frame’ for the news material, often with the undesirable result of
transforming the reporter into the story. As may be seen from these instances,
accessing the war zone requires considerable resourcefulness and resilience on the
part of the war correspondent, who must operate as a ‘tactician’. Using clever tricks,
the knowledge of how to get away with things, “hunter’s cunning” moves along with
joyful discoveries, the successful war recorder situates himself or herself into the
arena of war.
Success has been more elusive for women war correspondents, traditionally denied
access to this arena. In Journalism for Women : A Practical Guide, Arnold Bennett
advised female journalists to confine themselves to the “woman’s sphere”-fashion,
cookery, and domestic economics, furniture, the toilet, and less exclusively,
weddings and what is called society news. In the context of conflict, this mentality
limits women to what may be called parapolemics-those spatial and temporal
margins of war that include such phenomena as visits to the hospitals and
orphanages, the home front, interviews of the waiting and the bereaved, and the
domestic war front.
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can you atleast make an example on how to write your own precis?
Give me a text.
The media of written war reporting are newspapers, magazines, and now, the virtual
texts available on the internet. Each medium has its own poesis or approach to
writing; variables such as deadline dates, frequency of publication, editorial policy
and etiquette, amount of space devoted to the story, and the availability of
illustration result in pieces ranging from the urgently laconic to the leisurely
reflective, from the briefly factual to the complexly opinionated, from the quirkily
personal to the broadly synoptic. (Television and radio war journalism have their
own set of variables.) But despite these variations, modern war correspondence,
from its beginnings, has had a primary objective–to achieve believability through
an ethos (the Aristotelian term for persuasive appeal located in character) based on
autopsy or firsthand experience. It is this objective that underlies the practice that
was in its infancy in 1808 when the London Times sent Henry Crabb Robinson to
Spain to report on the British forces fighting the Peninsular War. The first conflict to
which American newspapers sent correspondents on a significant scale was the
Mexican War. Indeed, newspaper proprietors such as George Wilkins Kendall,
founder of the New Orleans Picayune, actually agitated for the conflict in the first
place. John Hohenberg observes that, “it was the fashion for correspondents to
prove their daring by fighting rather than sit on the sidelines as non-combatants”
and proving his proximity to the action, Kendall, one of forty correspondents in
Mexico, captured a Mexican Cavalry flag, was mentioned twice in dispatches, and
was wounded in the knee.
Though newspaper articles about war lack the true dialogic nature implied by the
etymology of ‘correspondence’, their epistolary qualities suggest the necessary
mutual confidence of the reader-war reporter relationship . The importance of
maintaining this confidence is evident in an anecdote told by Emmet Crozier, who,
in 1918, was working on The New York Globe and nursing a desire to go to France
as a war correspondent. A colleague brought Crozier ‘odd fragments’ about the war,
‘secondhand’ material some of which Crozier suspected was fabricated, but which
represented his only chance to be a war correspondent. After the war, Crozier
discovered that all the material was fabricated and felt that a dirty trick had been
played on Globe readers and on the integrity of journalism.
The reader-war reporter relationship, then, is founded on a credibility/ closeness
ratio. Next to proximity in importance is priority. News of war, in other words, must
be fast as well as accurate. Legendary ‘scoops’ include Marguerite Duras reaching
Dachau for the Herald Tribune before the American troops arrived; Doon Campbell
getting first to the Normandy beaches for Reuters; Max Hastings of the London
Evening Standard walking first into Port Stanley in 1982; Bob McKeown making
the first live broadcast for CBS from Kuwait City in 1991; and, in the war in
Afghanistan, John Simpson ‘liberating’ Kabul for the BBC. Such ‘firsts’ themselves
become the ‘peg’ or ‘frame’ for the news material, often with the undesirable result of
transforming the reporter into the story. As may be seen from these instances,
accessing the war zone requires considerable resourcefulness and resilience on the
part of the war correspondent, who must operate as a ‘tactician’. Using clever tricks,
the knowledge of how to get away with things, “hunter’s cunning” moves along with
joyful discoveries, the successful war recorder situates himself or herself into the
arena of war.
Success has been more elusive for women war correspondents, traditionally denied
access to this arena. In Journalism for Women : A Practical Guide, Arnold Bennett
advised female journalists to confine themselves to the “woman’s sphere”-fashion,
cookery, and domestic economics, furniture, the toilet, and less exclusively,
weddings and what is called society news. In the context of conflict, this mentality
limits women to what may be called parapolemics-those spatial and temporal
margins of war that include such phenomena as visits to the hospitals and
orphanages, the home front, interviews of the waiting and the bereaved, and the
domestic war front.
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Thank you.