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प्रश्न
List the characters in the play and write one or two lines about each.
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उत्तर
- Motiram: He is a farmer. He has had a good produce that year. He doesn't like others to know how well his crops have grown because he doesn't like to entertain unwanted guests. He is very direct and rude with unwanted guests.
- Sonabai: She is a farmer's wife. Her husband's farm has had a good product that year. She too doesn't like uninvited guests. She is clever at making excuses.
- Hirabai: Hirabai too is a farmer's wife. She doesn't like to waste good food and money on others. She is also good at making excuses.
- Rupabai: She is a simple lady. She is not as well to do as her neighbours. She is not as clever in making excuses as her neighbours. She usually speaks the truth.
- Traveller: He is poor and footsore and hungry. But he is very clever. He manages to get the villagers to contribute something or the other to the soup he makes.
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- Laughter Yoga (Hasya yoga) is a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter. It aims to get people laughing in groups. It is practiced in the early mornings in open-parks. It has been made popular as an exercise routine developed by Indian physician Madan Kataria, who writes about the practice in his 2002 book ‘Laugh for no reason'. Laughter Yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides the same physiological as well as psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter.
- Laughter yoga session may start with gentle warm-up techniques which include stretching, chanting, clapping, eye contact and body movements to help break down inhibitions and encourage a sense of playfulness. Moreover, laughter is the best medicine. Breathing exercises are used to prepare the lungs for laughter followed by a series of laughter exercises that combine a method of acting and visualization techniques. Twenty minutes of laughter is sufficient to augment physiological development.
- A handful of small-scale scientific studies have indicated that laughter yoga has some medically beneficial effects, including cardiovascular health and mood. This therapy has proved to be good for depressed patients. This laughter therapy also plays a crucial role in social bonding.
Answer the following.
a. How does laughter help one to cope with stress?
b. Which word in the text (para 2) means the same as ‘dedicated'?
c. Why do you think voluntary laughter provides the same physiological as well as psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter?
d. ‘Laughter is the best medicine’. Explain.
e. Given below is a set of activities. Which of these are followed in the ‘Laughter Yoga’ technique?
- sitting on the ground with legs crossed
- body movements
- clapping
- closed eyes
- breathing exercises
- chanting
- stretching of arms and legs
- bending backwards
- running/jogging
- eye contact
f. ‘Laughter therapy also plays a crucial role in social bonding’. How?
