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Have faith

  This is my gold chain and I am not going to give it to you…. Two men try to snatch her gold chain from her neck.   She fights like warrior but three strong men are too much for her to tackle.   They push her and she falls out of the open door of her train compartment.   Floating out of her train compartment, she fell onto the adjacent train tracks.   Before she could recover from her fall, she sees a train coming on from the other direction.   She tries getting up but before she can do that, the train runs over her leg.   The only thing that goes in her mind whole night when she was coming in and out of consciousness is --- Have Faith… That faith is what keeps her sane all night.   Early morning some locals pick her, take her to the hospital.   Try as much they want, she loses her leg from above the knee.   Almost two years later, she becomes the first woman amputee to scale the mount Everest.   Yes, ladies and gentlemen we are talking about Arunima Sinha.   That one fateful night
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Perfect Day in Old Delhi

  Today we will travel from Bangalore to lanes of old delhi.   My speech today is dedicated to food and the famous spots in old Delhi combined with some fun activities in that area.   One early Sunday morning we decide to visit the old delhi temples.   Wake up get ready and catch a metro to ISBT at 7:30 am.   Once you reach ISBT, take a rickshaw and reach Red Fort.   This is the side of the fort where the Prime minister addresses the nation on Independence Day.   Everyone knows this but not many people know that just across the red fort, there is red temple (laal mandir) which is one of the oldest Digambar Jain temples in delhi.   After paying your respects, you go to their bird hospital.   This temple also runs a huge 5 floor bird hospital where all sorts of birds across the area are brought over to be treated and released.   Once you get out of the Red temple, just next door is Gauri shankar temple.   Being a family where one spouse is a hindu and the other is a Jain, we visit both
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Garden of Five Senses - Level 1 Speech 3

  Garden of five senses Oh! How I love my garden where I sit and contemplate My perfect piece of paradise inside my garden gate Hanging baskets, pretty pots, the flowers are brimming over. The grass so green, the buttercups, the daisies, and the clover These are the exact kind of sonnets which have brought in a romance in the very word “Garden”.   Whenever we utter the word – garden, we imagine all sorts of lovely trees, flowers, butterflies, shrubs, fountains, cobbled pathways etc… This romance with the word garden got into my life with Enid Blyton books.   Unfortunately now that is the story only with cubbon park or lal bagh or Mughal gardens. Our own gardens are reduced to the smaller sizes of balconies or a few square meters of space.   My love for garden started when I was young due to two things – Enid Blyton books second as we all know all loves at such young age can start because of your parents, it was my mom.   Growing up we used to live in a DDA apartment, we had
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Level 1 - Speech 2 - The Perfect Gift

  You don’t have any idea how hard I have looked for the perfect gift for you.   Nothing seemed right.   Whats the point of bringing water to the ocean or gold to the gold mine.   Everything I pick, it seems like bringing spices to the orient.   I would have given you my heart and soul, but you already have those.   Ladies and gentlemen, today we will talk about the Perfect Gift Human beings are social animals and whatever anyone says receiving a valued beautiful gift which matches our tastes is a wonderful feeling.   That whole act of someone coming to you on your special day, smile on face handing you that lovely, wrapped box and wishing you is itself a gift.   In today’s world the size of the gift though decides the love involved.   If the gift is small…. You know as small as like this we would probably walk smaller gait and quickly hand it over with a small smile.   But something of a bigger gift… as big as this, we would walk with our head high and hand over the gift with huge
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Icebreaker July 2023

Icebreaker Speech  Arey O Jamure... Haan Ustaad.  Jo Bolunge Bolega.... Haan ustaad.... Jo Kahungi Kahega..... Haan ustaad....Saare raaz kholega... Haan ustaad.... to bata kaun ho main kya naam hai mera, kahan se aayi, kya kaam hai mera. Ladies and gentment, boys and girls of the prestigious greenage toastmasters club.  The little skit I just did talks about my two biggest loves - drama and poetry.  Today's session needs me to break the ice and talk about myself.  But is my identity a constant.  I am multiple things at multiple stages in my life.  I change, I evolve and each day I am someone else. Daughter of bankers, living all her life in Delhi, INdia; I started with small dreams.  Joining the IT industry was just the beginning of a journey which took me to various countries across the world.  Getting married at a young age of 26, I have seen several ups and downs.  managing career along with a joint family, a kid and long distance travel.  Learning has always been a constant in
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