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प्रश्न
Why did the family find it difficult to make a chair?
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उत्तर
The family found it difficult to make a chair because there was no model of a chair in their village. Moreover, there was not a single carpenter who knew how to make one.
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neighbour Makalu, unexplored and
unclimbed. Far away across the clouds,
the great bulk of Kanchenjunga loomed
on the horizon. To the west, we could
see the great unexplored ranges of Nepal
stretching off into the distance.
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1920’s and 1930’s. After ten minutes,
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