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प्रश्न
Name the festival that you enjoy most of all. Fill in the facts about that festival.
- Name of the festival:
- When it is celebrated:
- Why it is celebrated:
- How it is celebrated:
- Special cuisine:
- Other special features:
उत्तर
- Name of the festival: Diwali
- When it is celebrated: It is celebrated every autumn between October and November.
- Why it is celebrated: Diwali is a holiday in South India celebrating the day that Lord Krishna killed the demon Narakasura. In northern India, rows of clay lamps are lit in honor of the tale of King Rama's return to Ayodhya following his victory over Ravana.
- How it is celebrated: Along with their homes and places of employment, people also clean and decorate temples. Candles and oil lamps are used to brighten the surroundings, and devotional offerings, or puja, are made. Additionally, people frequently wear jewellery and brand-new, elegant clothing or cleanse themselves with water and aromatic oils. Families may plan feasts where gifts and sweets (mithai) are exchanged. Many towns, cities, and villages host fairs (melas) and light fireworks in the evening.
- Special cuisine: Samosa, aloo bunda, gulab jamun, sooji halwa, murukku, namak pare, gajar ka halwa, gujiya, kalakand, batasha, rasgulla, soan papdi, etc.
- Other special features: People dress to the nines, light fireworks, worship Lakshmi, the goddess of riches and prosperity, light diyas and rangoli to light up the inside and outside of their homes, and give gifts and mithai (sweets) during family feasts during Diwali.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Which two sayings about God are conveyed through the poem 'The Plate of Gold'?
- God helps those, who help themselves.
- God loves those, who love their fellow beings.
- God loves those, who give away their wealth, to please Him.
- Service to mankind is service to God.
Discuss and write 1-2 lines about the following.
Yonamine’s fight with Bushi (disguised as a bandit).
Choose the appropriate phrase to insert in the gap, to make the sentence meaningful. Use the appropriate form of the verb.
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Learning About Nature
Learn about caterpillars and butterflies. Read a book about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. You can get one from the library or go online and find information with pictures.
Why does the writer think that the peepul tree is a great show off?
What happened to the two girls at the end of the war?
List out the questions to which you seek answer using 'Why?'
The fir tree was sad ______.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow
Humans have long been fascinated by fiction. We experience excitement in assigning supernatural power to imaginary characters in fictional stories – and so we have Spider man, Batman, He–man, Titans and many more. The ‘Cyborg’ was an offshoot of such wild imagination of humans to invest our species with superhuman powers. Today, the Cyborg is no more an imaginary organism. We are living in a world where a sizeable population of humans have merged their bodies with technological implants. The term ‘Cyborg’, short for ‘cybernetic organism’, was coined to describe a man, whose body is implanted with technological devices to supplement and substitute body functions.
Cyborgs include people with cardiac pacemakers, contact lenses, bionic ears and eyes, prosthetics and so on. In other words, a cyborg is partly human and partly machine. The technological innovations in the field of medicine and healthcare augment humans with machines, producing a beta version of the human body. The advent of brain machine interfaces is certain to blur the boundary between humans and machines. Scientists are working hard to find a technique for age reversal too. People do not want to die, so mankind is striving to get to the final frontier, which is development of machines and devices that would accord man immortality.
The needs of humans are not limited. As time passes, food habits change, thinking patterns change, and even appearances change. We are about to travel by driverless, fully automated vehicles. Computers and smart phones have become our masters. The more we depend and merge with technological advancements, the more the humanness in us slowly erodes. Intelligence is sought to be infused into machines and robotics are designed in such a way to give man a virtual human companion. The field of artificial intelligence is overtaking the human brain and many fear that it could even harm the human race. Despite certain limitations and potential threats, many believe that cyborgs will be the next step in the evolution of mankind. The amalgamation of man and machine is sure to add a new dimension to the life of mankind and this will prove to be the ‘biggest evolution in Biology’ since the emergence of life, four billion years ago.
Questions:
a) Account for the popularity of characters with supernatural powers.
b) Who is referred to as a ‘Cyborg’?
c) What is expected to happen with the advent of the brain machine interface?
d) The needs of humans are not limited. How is this statement elaborated in the passage?
e) How can a machine turn into a virtual companion for humans?
f) Explain the flipside of the rapid technological advancement.
g) Identify the word in para 1 which means ‘everlasting life’.
h) Which of the following words is synonymous with ‘amalgamation’?
- recreation
- integration
- exploration
- proposition
i) Which of the following options is the antonym of the word ‘advent’?
- drawback
- dispute
- departure
- danger
j) Find out the word which is the antonym of ‘natural’ in para 3.
