Title: My Elder Brother

This is a story by Premchand titled Bade Bhai Saheb. The story shows that experience is as important as hard work. A hostel room. Two brothers, aged 9 and 14 years sitting at a study table.

The elder brother, Bhaiya, is reading a book and the younger one, Munna, is drawing pictures of birds and animals.

• BHAIYA: "What are you doing, Munna?"
• MUNNA: "I am drawing."
• BHAIYA: "When will you study? Where were you in the morning?"
• MUNNA (turning pale): "I was playing. Bhaiya, how can you sit with a book for hours together?"
• BHAIYA: "That's because I want my foundation in education to be very strong. If the base is strong then the building will stand firmly. Sometimes it takes me two years to do one year's work."
• MUNNA: "Bhaiya, you are five years older than I am and three classes ahead of me. I wonder why you keep writing the same word twenty times, one sentence more than twenty times and copy poems several times in beautiful letters?"
• BHAIYA: "You know, studying English is no child's play, one has to work very hard in order to learn the subject. To speak or write English properly, tremendous effort is required. But the moment you get a chance, you run to the field, play marbles and fly paper kites, or sit idling away with friends for fun! Can’t you sit down and study?"
• MUNNA: "Oh Bhaiya, there is a big mela in the village today. Should we go?"