the woman on platform 8

'The Woman on Platform 8' is written in Ruskin Bond's inimitable style. The story is set on a railway platform - platform number 8 in Ambala. The young boy whose name is Arun is the narrator of the stor..

The Woman on Platform 8 - One of the best loved writers for childern and adults is Ruskin Bond. Bond has forged an enduring relationship with the hills of North India by living in a hill station there. His vivid description of Nature and people, and gentle humour are c..

One of the best loved writers for childern and adults is Ruskin Bond. Bond has forged an enduring relationship with the hills of North India by living in a hill station there. His vivid description of Nature and people, and gentle humour are characteristics of his writing. He has written seve..

Question 1 - Question: Why was Arun all alone on platform 8? Answer: Arun was almost twelve years old. His parents thought that he was old enough to travel on his own and so sent him off all alone back to his boarding schoo..

There are 8 married couples in a tennis club. If 1 man and 1 woman are selected at random to plan the summer tournament, then what is the probability that they are married to each other? => 1 64 or 1 2 or 1 8 or one..

Health Care Organisations claim that on an average an insured woman stays for 2.1 days in the hospital for normal delivery where as an uninsured woman stays for 1.8 days. If two samples of 16 and 12 are considered with the variances of 0.54 and 0.65 days, find the test..

Question: Who do you think the strange lady was? Answer: The strange lady might have been a constant visitor to platform 8 in search of a son she had lost. Perhaps her son had died in a train accident and that was probably why she looked so fearful when she saw the..

Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, and grew up in Jam Nagar (Gujarat), Dehradun and Shimla. For over forty five years, Bond has been writing stories, novels, essays, poems and children's books. Ruskin Bond received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English Writing in India ..

Question: Why was Arun all alone on platform 8? Answer: Arun was almost twelve years old. His parents thought that he was old enough to travel on his own and so sent him off all alone back to his boarding schoo..

Question: Imagine you are Arun. Write a diary entry about your strange encounter on platform 8. Answer: Dear Diary, Got back to school this afternoon. Another academic year starts tomorrow! I want to share with you one of the strangest things that happened in Ambal..