Summarry of Bishop Candelstick

The Bishop’s Candelstick

The play The Bishop's Candlesticks by Norman Mckinnell is built on a very simple plot involving characters like The Bishop, the convict, the Bishop's sister, Marie and others. The plot of the play revolves around a story that brings forth the themes of Christian virtues like love and redemption.

The play unfolds through a series of dialogues between Persome, the Bishop's sister and Marie, the maid servant regarding the whereabouts of the Bishop. Through a thorough questioning, the Bishop's sister is able to sense that the Bishop may have gone to do his usual philanthropic activities nearby. She feels that the simplicity and nobility of the Bishop is being misused by people and the Bishop falls an easy prey due to his innocence.

After some time Persome comes to know that the salt cellars which were gifted by her mother has been given away by the Bishop to help Mere Gringore pay her rent and save her from imminent eviction.

Persome has an argument with the Bishop regarding his undue innocence. She makes him promise not to give away the candlesticks to anybody in future. Having said that she goes to sleep.

In the subsequent scenes, the play takes an interesting turn. The entry of a stranger is mentioned. The stranger is the convict who carries a long knife and seizes the Bishop from behind. The convict asks for food and threatens to kill him in case he informs others about his presence. The convict reveals his true identity to the Bishop. The Bishop comes to know about the circumstances by which the stranger became a convict,the torture meted out to him by the police and so on and so forth. During the convict's stay in the Bishop's house, he comes across the silver candle sticks. The Bishop tells him that how his mother gave these candle sticks to him and his sister at the time of her death. Ultimately, the convict is unable to resist his temptation and he runs away with the candle sticks.

Persome, the Bishop's sister starts a heated argument with the Bishop as usual only to hear that the convict is in more need of the candlesticks than them. However, the convict is unable to go too far so that he is nabbed by the Police. The Police brings the convict to the Bishop who instead of accusing the convict of theft, forgives him by saying that the convict is his friend . The police releases him .The convict is blessed by the Bishop who advises him to go to a good place to start a new career. The convict reaches Paris where he starts a business and settles down successfully. The convict realises that by this act of benevolence of the Bishop , the convict has undergo a transformation from a wild beast to a man once again.            

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Capitals and Area of states

List of States of India along with their Capitals

 

States                         Capital

Delhi                           New Delhi

Andhra Pradesh          Hyderabad

Arunachal Pradesh      Itanagar

Asom (Assam)            Dispur

Bihar                           Patna

Chhattisgarh                Raipur

Goa                             Panaji

Gujarat                                    Gandhinagar

Haryana                       Chandigarh

Himachal Pradesh       Shimla

Jammu and Kashmir   Jammu (Winter capital)

Srinagar (Summer capital)

Jharkhand                    Ranchi

Karnataka                    Bangalore

Kerala                          Thiruvananthapuram

Madhya Pradesh         Bhopal

Maharashtra                Mumbai

Manipur                       Imphal

Meghalaya                   Shillong

Mizoram                      Aizawl

Nagaland                     Kohima

Odisha (Orissa)           Bhubaneswar

Punjab                         Chandigarh

Rajasthan                    Jaipur

Sikkim                         Gangtok

Tamil Nadu                 Chennai

Tripura                         Agartala

Uttar Pradesh              Lucknow

Uttarakhand (Uttaranchal)      Dehradun

West Bengal                Kolkata

List of Union Territories of India

Union Territories                                 Headquarters

Andaman and Nicobar Islands           Port Blair

Chandigarh                                         Chandigarh

Dadra and Nagar Haveli                     Silvassa

Daman and Diu                                   Daman

Lakshadweep                                      Kavaratti

Puducherry (Pondicherry)                   Pondicherry

State/UT                             Area        

Chandigarh                 114 Sq. Kms. 

Punjab                         50,362 Sq. Kms         

Delhi                           1483 Sq. Kms

Maharashtra                307,690 Sq. Kms       

Karnataka                    191,791 Sq. Kms       

Himachal Pradesh       55,673 Sq. Kms         

Gujarat                                    196,024 Sq. Kms

           

Andhra Pradesh          275,068 Sq. Kms       

Arunachal Pradesh      83,743 Sq. Kms         

Assam                         78,438 Sq. Kms         

Bihar                           173,877 Sq. Kms       

Chhattisgarh                135,194 Sq. Kms       

Goa                             3,720 Sq. Kms           

Haryana                       44,212 Sq. Kms         

Jammu & Kashmir      222,236 Sq. Kms       

Jharkhand                    74,677 Sq. Kms        

Kerala                          38,863 Sq. Kms         

Madhya Pradesh         443,446 Sq. Kms       

Manipur                       22,327 Sq. Kms         

Meghalaya                   22,429 Sq. Kms         

Mizoram                      21,081 Sq. Kms         

Nagaland                    16,579 Sq. Kms         

Orrisa                         155,707 Sq. Kms       

Rajasthan                    342,349 Sq. Kms       

Sikkim                         7,096 Sq. Kms                       

Tamilnadu                   130,058 Sq. Kms       

Tripura                         10,486 Sq. Kms         

Uttar Pradesh              294,441 Sq. Kms       

West Bangal                88,752 Sq. Kms         

Andaman & Nicobar               8,249 Sq. Kms           

Dadra & Nagar Haveli            491 Sq. Kms  

Daman & Diu              112 Sq. Kms  

Lakshdweep                32 Sq. Kms    

Pondicherry                 492 Sq. Kms  

Uttaranchal                 51,125 Sq. Kms         

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)

Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon [Lebanon was a Turkish province part of Greater Syria (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) and subjugated to Ottoman dominion]. His mother Kamila Rahmeh was thirty when she begot Gibran from her third husband Khalil Gibran, who proved to be an irresponsible husband leading the family to poverty. Gibran had a half-brother six years older than him called Peter and two younger sisters, Mariana and Sultana, whom he was deeply attached to throughout his life, along with his mother. Kamila's family came from a prestigious religious background, which imbued the uneducated mother with a strong will and later on helped her raise up the family on her own in the U.S. Growing up in the lush region of Bsharri, Gibran proved to be a solitary and pensive child who relished the natural surroundings of the cascading falls, the rugged cliffs and the neighboring green cedars, the beauty of which emerged as a dramatic and symbolic influence to his drawings and writings. Being laden with poverty, he did not receive any formal education or learning, which was limited to regular visits to a village priest who doctrined him with the essentials of religion and the Bible, alongside Syriac and Arabic languages. Recognizing Gibran's inquisitive and alert nature, the priest began teaching him the rudiments of alphabet and language, opening up to Gibran the world of history, science, and language. At the age of ten, Gibran fell off a cliff, wounding his left shoulder, which remained weak for the rest of his life ever since this incident. To relocate the shoulder, his family strapped it to a cross and wrapped it up for forty days, a symbolic incident reminiscent of Christ's wanderings in the wilderness and which remained etched in Gibran's memory. 

At the age of eight, Khalil Gibran, Gibran's father, was accused of tax evasion and was sent to prison as the Ottomon authorities confiscated the Gibrans' property and left them homeless. The family went to live with relatives for a while; however, the strong-willed mother decided that the family should immigrate to the U.S., seeking a better life and following in suit to Gibran's uncle who immigrated earlier. The father was released in 1894, but being an irresponsible head of the family he was undecided about immigration and remained behind in Lebanon.

On June 25, 1895, the Gibrans embarked on a voyage to the American shores of New York.

The Gibrans settled in Boston's South End, which at the time hosted the second largest Syrian community in the U.S. following New York. The culturally diverse area felt familiar to Kamila, who was comforted by the familiar spoken Arabic, and the widespread Arab customs. Kamila, now the bread-earner of the family, began to work as a peddler on the impoverished streets of South End Boston. At the time, peddling was the major source of income for most Syrian immigrants, who were negatively portrayed due to their unconventional Arab ways and their supposed idleness.

In the school, a registration mistake altered his name forever by shortening it to Kahlil Gibran, which remained unchanged till the rest of his life despite repeated attempts at restoring his full name. Gibran entered school on September 30, 1895, merely two months after his arrival in the U.S. Having no formal education, he was placed in an ungraded class reserved for immigrant children, who had to learn English from scratch. Gibran caught the eye of his teachers with his sketches and drawings, a hobby he had started during his childhood in Lebanon.

Gibran's curiosity led him to the cultural side of Boston, which exposed him to the rich world of the theatre, Opera and artistic Galleries. Prodded by the cultural scenes around him and through his artistic drawings, Gibran caught the attention of his teachers at the public school, who saw an artistic future for the boy. They contacted Fred Holland Day, an artist and a supporter of artists who opened up Gibran's cultural world and set him on the road to artistic fame...

Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist.

Gibran's works were especially influential in the American popular culture in the 1960s. In 1904 Gibran had his first art exhibition in Boston. From 1908 to 1910 he studied art in Paris with August Rodin. In 1912 he settled in New York, where he devoted himself to writing and painting. Gibran's early works were written in Arabic, and from 1918 he published mostly in English. In 1920 he founded a society for Arab writers, Mahgar (al-Mahgar). Among its members were Mikha'il Na'ima (1889-1988), Iliya Abu Madi (1889-1957), Nasib Arida (1887-1946), Nadra Haddad (1881-1950), and Ilyas Abu Sabaka (1903-47). Gibran died in New York on April 10, 1931. Among his best-known works is THE PROPHET, a book of 26 poetic essays, which has been translated into over 20 languages. The Prophet, who has lived in a foreign city 12 years, is about to board a ship that will take him home. He is stopped by a group of people, whom he teaches the mysteries of life.

Selected works:

ARA'IS AL MURUDJ, 1906

STONEFOLDS, 1907

ON THE THRESHOLD, 1907

AL-ARWAH AL-MUTAMARRIDA, 1908

DAILY BREAD, 1910

FIRES, 1912

 AL-AJNIHA AL-MUTAKASSIRAH [The broken wings], 1912

 DAM'AH WA-IBTISAMAH [A Tear and a Smile], 1914

THE MADMAN, 1918

AL-MAWAKIB [The Procession], 1919

THE FORERUNNER, 1920

 SPIRITS REBELLIOUS, 1920

THE PROPHET, 1923

SAND AND FOAM, 1926

JESUS, THE SON OF MAN, 1928

THE EARTH GODS, 1931

GARDEN OF THE PROPHET, 1933

THE DEATH OF THE PROPHET, 1933

TEARS AND LAUGHTER, 1947

NYMPHS OF THE VALLEY, 1948

5 Indian Mathematician

Indian Mathematicians

Ramanujan

He was born on 22na of December 1887 in a small village of Tanjore district, Madras. He failed in English in Intermediate, so his formal studies were stopped but his self-study of mathematics continued.

He sent a set of 120 theorems to Professor Hardy of Cambridge. As a result he invited Ramanujan to England.

Ramanujan showed that any big number can be written as sum of not more than four prime numbers.

He showed that how to divide the number into two or more squares or cubes.

when Mr Litlewood came to see Ramanujan in taxi number 1729, Ramanujan said that 1729 is the smallest number which can be written in the form of sum of cubes of two numbers in two ways, i.e. 1729 = 93 + 103 = 13 + 123 since then the number 1729 is called Ramanujan’s number.

In the third century B.C, Archimedes noted that the ratio of circumference of a circle to its diameter is constant. The ratio is now called ‘pi ( Π )’ (the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet series)

The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 1053 with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period.

Aryabhatta

Aryabhatta was born in 476A.D in Kusumpur, India.

 He was the first person to say that Earth is spherical and it revolves around the sun.

 He gave the formula (a + b)2 = a2 + b2 + 2ab

He taught the method of solving the following problems:

Brahmagupta

Brahma Gupta was born in 598A.D in Pakistan.

He gave four methods of multiplication.

He gave the following formula, used in G.P series

a + ar + ar2 + ar3 +……….. + arn-1 = (arn-1) ÷ (r – 1)

He gave the following formulae :

	Area of a cyclic quadrilateral with side a, b, c, d= √(s -a)(s- b)(s -c)(s- d) where 2s = a + b + c + d Length of its diagonals =

Shakuntala Devi

 She was born in 1939

In 1980, she gave the product of two, thirteen digit numbers within 28 seconds, many countries have invited her to demonstrate her extraordinary talent.

In Dallas she competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won. At university of USA she was asked to give the 23rd root of 91674867692003915809866092758538016248310668014430862240712651642793465704086709659 32792057674808067900227830163549248523803357453169351119035965775473400756818688305 620821016129132845564895780158806771.

She answered in 50seconds. The answer is 546372891. It took a UNIVAC 1108 computer, full one minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 13000 instructions.

 Now she is known to be Human Computer.

                                               

Bhaskaracharya

He was born in a village of Mysore district.

He was the first to give that any number divided by 0 gives infinity (00).

 He has written a lot about zero, surds, permutation and combination.

He wrote, “The hundredth part of the circumference of a circle seems to be straight. Our earth is a big sphere and that’s why it appears to be flat.”

 He gave the formulae like sin(A ± B) = sinA.cosB ± cosA.sinB