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The Tale of Melon City / Class 11 / Supplementary / KVS PGT English

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Kendriya Vidyalaya Recruitment 2025 PGT English Class 11 Supplementary Reader ( Snapshots) Lesson 8 - The Tale of Melon City Study Notes: The Tale of Melon City -  written by Vikram Seth.  Vikram Seth: June 20, 1952 - Calcutta, India. Graduated from Corpus Christi College Master's degree in Economics.  His first volume of poetry - "Mappings" (1981) Other important poetic works From Heaven's Lake (1983) Humorous travelogue Hitchhiking from Nanking to New Delhi via Tibet. The Golden Gate (1986) Based on Charles Johnston's  translation of Alexander Pushkin's   Eugene Onegin Foreshadowing work: The Humble Administrator's Garden. All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) 10 stories in tetrameter couplets The Poems ( 1981 - 1994) Summer Requiem (2015) Important Prose works: A Suitable Boy (1993) An Equal Music (1999) Poem notes: The Tale of Melon City Taken from Mappings - 1981. Included in the Collected Poems by Vikram Seth. Writ...