CBSE Class 11 · English · Hornbill / Snapshots
The Ghat of the Only World
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Class 11 English.
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About the author
Amitav Ghosh. Memoir of Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali - promise to write about him before death; elegy for friendship, food, and poetry bridging Kashmir and America.
Summary
Shahid asks Ghosh to write when he is gone.
Shahid asks Ghosh to write when he is gone.
Brain tumour; wit and hospitality remain.
Brain tumour; wit and hospitality remain.
Srinagar, rogan josh, conflict in Brooklyn life.
Srinagar, rogan josh, conflict in Brooklyn life.
Parties, poetry, cooking amid prognosis.
Parties, poetry, cooking amid prognosis.
Joke of moving Kashmir house to Arizona.
Joke of moving Kashmir house to Arizona.
Ghosh fulfils promise in this essay.
Ghosh fulfils promise in this essay.
Hard words & meanings
| elegy | mourning poem |
| prognosis | medical forecast |
| exile | away from home |
| ghat | river steps |
| metastatic | spreading cancer |
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