Life Learnings

  The book Matilda is by a British author Roald Dahl and is illustrated by Quentin Blake. Matilda is a young little extra-ordinary girl who is very fond of reading books, very intelligent and a fast learner.  She has read every child’s book in the library and a few for adults. She can even do advanced math in her head. Her father, a rotten car salesman, and her mother, obsessed with playing bingo all the afternoon, treat her almost as terribly as the nasty Miss Agatha Trunchbull, the child-hating headmistress at her school, Crunchem Hall School. In the school, Matilda meets her sweet, loving & caring class teacher, Miss Honey. Matilda discovered that she has a power in her eyes from which she can lift and break things. From her superpower she helped Miss Honey to get her mansion back from Miss Trunchbull. At the end of the story, both, Matilda and her teacher Miss Honey lived happily as her parents before going to another country forever gave the Matilda’s adoption to Miss Honey.  

  The Postmaster is from Kolkata and is city bred. He did not find it easy to mingle with the village folk. He greatly missed his family members. He tried to spend his time by writing poetry. He found a little girl, an orphan called Ratan who helped him with his chores. The postmaster was comfortable while sharing about his family members and how much he missed them to Ratan. When the postmaster got ill, she played a role of his little mother. Unfortunately, the two were separated at the last. When the postmaster application for a transfer was rejected, he resigned from his job and returned to his family, leaving Ratan alone.   The Kabuliwala was a tall Afghan, who wore a dirty loose robe, a turban and had a large bag slung across his shoulder. He was a patient listener and cracked a lot of good jokes. The Kabuliwala also had a daughter and Mini reminded him of his daughter; so whenever he used to come to Mini, he brought a handful of nuts. Just like in the Postmaster story, the protag