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प्रश्न
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate option. Give reason for your choice.
'That forced my cousin Samsuddin' ...... ' That ' here refers to
विकल्प
world War II
increase in the demand of tamarind seeds
withdrawal of train halt at Rameshwaran station
उत्तर
'That forced my cousin Samsuddin' ...... ' That ' here refers to withdrawal of train halt at Rameshwaran station .
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संबंधित प्रश्न
WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit –
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
- Why does the poet say, ‘Where the mind is without fear’ ?
- What are the narrow domestic walls being referred to ?
- Why are they ‘narrow ’ ?
- How /when does the ‘clear stream of reason’ lose its way ?
- What is the poet’s appeal ?
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reason for your choices.
As children Kalam and his friends did not have any
Complete the following sentence.
Kalam feels he had a very secure childhood because .....................................
Complete the following sentence.
The suspension of train halt at Rameshwaram station proved to be a blessing in disguise for Kalam because .................................................................
Complete the following sentence.
The nation should be wary of people like the grade V teacher of the narrator because ...............................................................................................
Complete the following sentence.
However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam’s Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam’s mother and grandmother because ……………....
Role Play:
Your teacher will divide the class into groups of four and ask them to act out the following roles:
Kalam
Ramanadha Sastry
Aravindan
Shivaprakasan
In your group you should play the role allocated to you by engagmg in a conversation in which the friends
a) Express surprise and joy at meeting each other after nearly fifty years
b) Fondly recall their childhood times
c) Compare the problems facing the country then with the problems she is facing now.
d) Discuss what can be done to rid her of these problems
(Refer to the SWOT analysis of lndia)
After the role play, your teacher will invite some of the groups to share with others what problems they discussed and the solutions they proposed.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest's son sitting with a Muslim boy.
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
Why is national integration important for a country like India ?
Organize a group discussion on the topic : “Destabilizing Forces Within a Country : Challenges to a Nation”.
