NCERT Solutions for Class 9th English Chapter 6 Twin Melodies
Updated on 2026-09-08
About this chapter
Twin Melodies (play, pages 169–193) has three Acts and five characters: Shruti Sharma (a young aspiring violinist), Guru Nabin Sharma (her father, a violinist and Principal of Sangeetika Music School), Leela Devi (her mother), and her fusion group — Avinash on tabla, Iqbal on flute, Peter on keyboard. The conflict is stated plainly in Act I. Shruti tells her friends her father “will think it a desecration of the violin to be played to Western tunes” and that he “firmly believes that Classical Hindustani music, with its ragas and aalaaps, is the only kind of music that an artist of any worth should play.” Her problem is not disobedience but manner: “I just don’t know how to tell him in the right way!” Act II is the clash. Nabin refuses twice — first on his own rule (“one performance in ever
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan)
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins)
Exercises
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Reflect and Respond Page 169–170
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Check Your Understanding (Act I) Page 174
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Check Your Understanding (Act II) Page 177–178
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Check Your Understanding (Act III) Page 181–182
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Critical Reflection Page 182–184
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Vocabulary and Structures in Context Page 184–188
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Listen and Respond Page 188
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Speaking Activity Page 189–190
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Writing Task Page 190–191
- Twin Melodies (play by Mitra Phukan) — Learning Beyond the Text Page 191–193
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Reflect and Respond Page 194
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Check Your Understanding Page 195
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Critical Reflection Page 196
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Vocabulary in Context Page 197–198
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Listen and Respond Page 199
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Speaking Activity Page 200
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Writing Task Page 200–201
- A Friend Found in Music (poem by Bryanna T. Perkins) — Learning Beyond the Text Page 201–202