Kaleidoscope — Class 12 NCERT
Official National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) English textbook for Class 12 (English Medium). Neeche poori chapter list, teacher notes aur FAQs — aur kitab NCERT ki official site se download karein, bilkul muft.
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Kaleidoscope is the NCERT anthology for Class 12 English Elective — a tour of world literature in one volume. Its 21 pieces span five short stories (from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Bi Shu-min), eight poems (Donne to Kamala Das), six non-fiction essays (Shaw, Woolf, Bergman, Lawrence, Amartya Sen, Asimov) and two plays (Tagore's Chandalika and Karnad's Broken Images).
Note for elective students: the CBSE elective paper prescribes 16 of these 21 pieces — 3 stories, 7 poems, 5 non-fiction essays and 1 play (Chandalika) — plus a novel of choice. The book itself, in its 2026-27 reprint, still carries all 21 pieces, so this page lists the complete book contents.
Poori chapter list (NCERT official)
Story 1. I Sell my Dreams
Gabriel Garcia Marquez — a mysterious woman who sells dreams, in Marquez's magical-realist mode
Story 2. Eveline
James Joyce — a young woman frozen at the moment of choosing between duty and escape
Story 3. A Wedding in Brownsville
Isaac Bashevis Singer — memory, loss and immigrant life in a New York wedding
Story 4. Tomorrow
Joseph Conrad — an old sailor's hopeless, touching wait for his lost son's return
Story 5. One Centimetre
Bi Shu-min — a mother's quiet battle for her son's dignity, measured in one centimetre
Poem 1. A Lecture Upon the Shadow
John Donne — love traced through lengthening and shortening shadows
Poem 2. Poems by Milton
John Milton — selections from the great Puritan poet of Paradise Lost
Poem 3. Poems by Blake
William Blake — visionary lyrics of innocence and experience
Poem 4. Kubla Khan
S. T. Coleridge — the famous opium-dream fragment of Xanadu's pleasure dome
Poem 5. Trees
Emily Dickinson — nature observed with Dickinson's slant, compressed genius
Poem 6. The Wild Swans at Coole
W. B. Yeats — fifty-nine swans and a poet's meditation on ageing
Poem 7. Time and Time Again
A. K. Ramanujan — time, memory and Indian modernity in crisp verse
Poem 8. Blood
Kamala Das — blood as inheritance, womanhood and stark self-revelation
Non-Fiction 1. Freedom
G. B. Shaw — Shaw's provocative essay on what freedom really means
Non-Fiction 2. The Mark on the Wall
Virginia Woolf — a stream-of-consciousness meditation beginning from a mark on the wall
Non-Fiction 3. Film-making
Ingmar Bergman — the great director on the craft and mystery of cinema
Non-Fiction 4. Why the Novel Matters
D. H. Lawrence — Lawrence's passionate defence of the novel as the highest art
Non-Fiction 5. The Argumentative Indian
Amartya Sen — on India's long tradition of debate, dissent and public reasoning
Non-Fiction 6. On Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov — the master of the genre explains what science fiction is for
Drama 1. Chandalika
Rabindranath Tagore — an untouchable girl's awakening to selfhood; the prescribed play for the elective paper
Drama 2. Broken Images
Girish Karnad — a celebrated writer confronts her own double on stage
Ustad ka mashwara
Kaleidoscope sirf elective (001) walon ki kitab hai — core walon ko is ki zaroorat nahi. Elective paper mein 21 mein se 16 pieces prescribed hain (3 stories, 7 poems, 5 non-fiction, Chandalika); pehle prescribed list confirm karwayein phir parhayein. Non-fiction essays se reference-to-context wale sawal aate hain — har essay ka central argument ek line mein likhwana aadat banayein.
— Rehman Ahmad Chaudhary, Head Teacher, GPS 117 DB(BJ), Yazman
Aksar pooche gaye sawalat
Kaleidoscope kis course ki kitab hai?
Kaleidoscope Class 12 English Elective (code 001) ki NCERT anthology hai. English Core (301) walon ki kitabein Flamingo aur Vistas hain — unhein Kaleidoscope nahi parhni.
Kaleidoscope mein kul kitne pieces hain, aur paper mein kitne aate hain?
Kitab mein kul 21 pieces hain — 5 stories, 8 poems, 6 non-fiction essays, 2 plays. CBSE elective paper ke liye in mein se 16 prescribed hain (3 stories, 7 poems, 5 non-fiction, 1 play — Chandalika), plus ek novel.
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