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प्रश्न
Compose 4-6 lines on your own on ‘Good deeds’.
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उत्तर
Good Deeds
That I shall reach out to my brother in need,
To the one without nothing to hold but a reed,
Shun I shall all the material greed,
My bit of humanity I will seed,
In emancipating him, I must take the lead.
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