Question

Read the following extract from an article by Usha Bande on Bonds of Culture. Based on your understanding, complete the tasks.

Answer 1

A decade or so ago to counter the threat of the divisive forces, a catchy slogan on buses and public places read “From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, India is one”. Incidentally, around the same time, V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now (1991) was released, visualising a strong and unified India despite its “million mutinies” threatening its very existence. The mutinies, he said, are a process of integration and restoration and are not to be wished away. “These were a part of a new beginning, of a new way for millions, part of India’s growth, part of its restoration”. It is true that “a central will, a central intellect and a national idea” has always prevailed underneath Indian culture lending cultural wholeness to the country.