Who is writing
Eleven cards, one country.
Shaana, from Rameswaram island in the far south, travelling with Amma and Appa and writing to her class.
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North, South, East, West · Class 7 English · Poorvi
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Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Why that matters
Not to the family.
Her parents are with her, so there is nobody at home to tell. Every card turns back to the class instead.
The Thajiwas glacier
As far north as it goes.
White and blue ice, four layers of clothes, snowballs, and hands too cold to go on writing.
Two things are available
She is twelve.
What Shaana states, and what she gives away without meaning to. The chapter lives in the gap.
Where she is from
A beach without the sea.
Nobody raised inland reaches for a beach to describe a desert. The comparison places her on an island.
You will not believe
Never the adjective.
That is how her excitement arrives: as a dare to the reader rather than as the word excited.
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1
Eleven Postcards, Six Landforms
A girl from an island in the south writes home from eleven places, and between them she crosses every kind of ground India has. This topic follows the route, counts the distances in her own units, and collects the six la…
- Shaana lives on Rameswaram island in the south, and she travels with her parents, Amma and Appa.
- She writes to her class rather than to her family, and the last postcard of all is to Amma and Appa.
- The route begins at the Thajiwas glacier in Kashmir, which is as far north as the journey goes.
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2
A Child’s Voice, and What It Lets Slip
The narrator is twelve, and she tells a reader more than she realises. Her comparisons give away where she is from, her arithmetic gives away her confidence, and three remarks she merely repeats add up to something she n…
- She calls a desert a beach without the sea, which tells a reader she grew up beside one.
- Her excitement arrives as a refusal to be believed: you will not believe where I am, or how nice it looks.
- Her curiosity arrives as surprise at a fact: she had never known a place like the Sundarbans existed.
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3
Which Verb? Subject-Verb Agreement
Ten rules about choosing a verb, and nine of them answer one question: which word is the subject? Find that first and the rules stop being a list. The tenth, about or and nor, is the only one that works differently, and…
- Nine of the ten rules answer one question: which word is the subject? Find it first and the verb follows.
- Two or more nouns joined by and make a plural subject, so Amma and Appa are asleep rather than is asleep.
- A subject of it takes is or was: it is hot, and there is sand everywhere.
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Shaana writes her postcards from the road, but she gives her own home as an island in the far south. Living there, she lives on
Beginner
A near the Narmada
B on Rameswaram island
C in the Sundarbans
D in Himachal Pradesh
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on Rameswaram island
In the far south, which is why the last leg is a train across the sea.
The postcards are not addressed to her parents, who are travelling with her, but to a group back home. Written to are
Intermediate
A with her Amma and her Appa
B a cousin in Goa
C her grandparents
D her class at school
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her class at school
All but the last, which goes to the parents travelling with her.
Why is it significant that she writes to her class rather than her family?
Advanced
A her family is travelling with her, so there is nobody to tell
B her family had asked her not to write to anyone else back at home
C the class had set her a holiday writing project
D postcards to a family cost rather more to send than to a school
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her family is travelling with her, so there is nobody to tell
Which is why every card turns back to the class with a question or a promise.
The journey begins at the northernmost point it will reach, high up in Kashmir. The first place she writes from is
Beginner
A Olaikaadu, near home
B Himachal, to the south
C the Sundarbans, east
D the Thajiwas glacier
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the Thajiwas glacier
In Kashmir, and the farthest north the journey goes.
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