Stories in English

“Give me one more laddu, Mummy,” said Deepu when he saw his mother putting a coconut laddu in his plate. “Deepu, I am giving you the only laddu which is left. There are no more laddus,” said Mother. “But Mummy, Daddy brought half a kilo laddus just this morning. How come there is only one left? Who has eaten the …

Michael and Anne were alone in the house. Michael said to Anne: “Come along to find something good.” Anne replied: “If you take me where nobody will see us, then I shall come very willingly.” “Then,” continued Michael, “we shall go to the dairy and there we can drink a whole cup of cream and no one will see us.” …

Gautam Mehrotra was sitting in the living room and reading the newspaper. It was a Sunday. He had just finished his breakfast and was trying to catch up with the rest of the world. Gautam had retired as a senior executive assistant in the Collector’s office, after thirty one year’s of service, ten month ago. Soon after retirement he had …

There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her – so how could she be happy? One day she said to her parents, “I have heard so much of the old witch that I will go and see her. People say she is a wonderful old woman, and has …

In the autumn of 1777 the English decided to attack Fort Henry, at Wheeling, in northwestern Virginia. This was an important border fort named in honor of Patrick Henry, and around which had grown up a small village of about twenty-five log houses. A band of Indians, under the leadership of one Simon Girty, was supplied by the English with …

On November 29, 1773, there arrived in Boston Harbor a ship carrying an hundred and odd chests of the detested tea. The people in the country roundabout, as well as the town’s folk, were unanimous against allowing the landing of it – but the agents in charge of the consignment persisted in their refusal to take the tea back to …

During the evacuation of New York by Washington, two divisions of the enemy, encamped on Long Island, one British under Sir Henry Clinton, the other Hessian under Colonel Donop, emerged in boats from the deep wooded recesses of Newtown Inlet, and under cover of the fire from the ships began to land at two points between Turtle and Kip’s Bays. …

In the year 1781 the war was chiefly carried on in the South, but the North was constantly troubled by bands of Tories and Indians, who would swoop down on small settlements and make off with whatever they could lay their hands on. During this time General Schuyler was staying at his house, which stood just outside the stockade or …

Some bold spirits in Connecticut conceived the project of surprising the old forts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, already famous in the French War. Their situation on Lake Champlain gave them the command of the main route into Canada so that the possession of them would be all important in case of hostilities. They were feebly garrisoned and negligently guarded, …

Sandy  was a great crowd puller because of his very unique dancing style. He was quite popular among his friends and fellow animals of jungle. All the birds and animals of jungle gathered at night in front of “The Yahoo Ice-cream Parlour” to enjoy Sandy’s dance. Sandy loved ice-cream and enjoyed dancing on it too. When he jumped into the …