Yearly Archives: 2014

Ashima Sharma, October, 2014, Shimla Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. For the youth of today education in schools has...

Ritanjali Hastir, Keekli Reporter, September 2014, Shimla  Kunal Zac Neo a young hip hop dancer seems to have decided to bring change in the dance culture with his talent. He is confident...

Keekli Reporter, 8th May, 2014, Chandigarh An enthusiastic and passionate golfer, starting at a tender age of four, Aadil Bedi, now 13 years old was awarded the Best Achievement Sports Award in...

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
- Tennessee Williams

smite
DEFINITION
verb
1. to strike sharply or heavily;
2a. to kill or severely injure by striking;
b. to attack or afflict suddenly and injuriously;
3. to affect as if by striking.

timorous
DEFINITION
adjective
1. of a timid disposition : fearful;
2. expressing or suggesting timidity.

I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
- Jonathan Ames

knackered
DEFINITION
adjective
: tired, exhausted.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
- Louis L'Amour

perforce
DEFINITION
adverb
: by force of circumstances.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
- Phyllis McGinley

rearguard
DEFINITION
adjective
: of or relating to resistance especially to sweeping social forces.