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प्रश्न
Direction: Fill up the blanks numbered (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) in the passage given below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.
The main objective of art and (a) living is to develop (b) sensibilities and skills of healthful living besides providing a (c) ground for the love of labour, (d) social attitudes and moral values so as to enable the child to be (e) to the ideas of others with humility and sincerity in thought, word, and deed. Love for mankind and helping the needy would (f) at this stage and its culmination would be in terms of attainment of selfless service. 'c' is
पर्याय
nurturing
fruitful
attractive
interesting
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उत्तर
nurturing
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In Mann Joseph's debut novel Serious Men, the protagonist, Ayyan Mani, is a U1, scheming Dalit-Buddhist who almost gets away with passing off his partially deaf son, Adi, as a prodigy, a genius who can recite the first 1,000 prime numbers. The garb of satire-where almost every character cuts a sorry figure-gives the author the licence to offer one' of the most bleak and pessimistic portrayals of urban Dalits. Despite his savage portrayal of Dalit (and female) characters-or perhaps because of it? Serious Men has won critical appreciation front a cross-section of readers and critics.
At a time when a formidable body of Dalit literature writing by Dalits about Dalit lives has created a distinct space for itself, how and why is it that a novel such as Serious Men, with its gleefully skewed portrayal of an angry Dalit man, manages to win such accolades? In American literature and particularly in the case of African- American authors and characters these issues of representation have been debated for decades. But in India, the sustained refusal to address issues related to caste in everyday life and the continued and unquestioned predominance of a Brahminical stranglehold over cultural production have led us to a place where non-Dalit portrayal of Dalits in literature, cinema and art remains the norm. The journey of modem Dalit literature has been a difficult one. But even though it has not necessarily enjoyed the support of numbers, we must engage with what Dalits are writing not simply for reasons of authenticity, or as a concession to identity politics, but simply because of the aesthetic value of this body of writing, and for the insights it offers into the human condition. In a society that is still largely unwilling to recognise Dalits as equal, rights bearing human beings, in a society that is inherently indifferent to the everyday violence against Dalits, in a society unwilling to share social and cultural resources equitably with Dalits unless mandated by law (as seen in the anti-reservation discourse), Dalit literature has the potential to humanise non- Dalits and sensitise them to a world into which they have no insight. But before we can understand what Dalit literature is seeking to accomplish, we need first to come to terms with the stranglehold of non-Dalit representations of Dalits.
Rohinton Miary's (A Fine Balance), published 15 years ago, chronicles the travails of two Dalit characters uncle Ishvar and nephew Omprakash who migrate to Bombay and yet cannot escape brutality. While the present of the novel is set at the time of the Emergency, Ishvar's father Dukhy belongs to the era of the anti-colonial nationalist movement. During one of Dukhi's visits to the town, he chances upon a meeting of the Indian National Congress, where speakers spread the "Mahatma's message regarding the freedom struggle, the struggle for justice," and wiping out "the disease of untouchability; ravaging us for centuries, denying dignity to our fellow human beings."
Neither in the 1940s, where the novel's past is set nor in the Emergency period of the 1970swhen the minds and bodies Ishvar and Omprakash, are savaged by the state-do we find any mention of a figure like BR Ambedkar or of Dalit movements. In his 'nationalist' understanding of modem Indian history, Mistry seems to have not veered too far from the road charted by predecessors like Mulk Raj Anand and Premchand. Sixty years after Premchand, Mistry's literary imagination seems stuck in the empathy realism mode, trapping Dalits in abjection. Mistry happily continues the broad stereotype of the Dalit as a passive sufferer, without consciousness of caste politics.
"It is not as if Dalit movements _________ not active during the periods that form A Fine Balance's backdrop." Select the most appropriate choice to fill in the blank in the above sentence:
Fill in the blanks:
He is _______ of spelling reforms.
Fill in the blank by choosing the most appropriate option.
She stood ________ Amit, but could not utter a single word for quite so me time.
Fill in the blank in the following sentence by using the most appropriate word from the options given below the sentence.
Only _______________ fingers can do this needlework
The lion sprang __________ the buffaloes
John said he _______ to play at home
Complete the sentence by filling in the blank with the correct tenses from the given choices by indicating your option.
It _________ all day yesterday before the garden wall collapsed.
Match the ideas by using the words in the brackets.
I. (even though) II. (with) III. (seeing that) IV. (even if) (i) (ii)
I took my raincoat and a. _____ because Davies umbrella _____. is its captain 2. I still won't be able to get b. _____ despite a to a meeting at 8.30 ________ problem in digging the foundations 3. The team is likely to do well c. _____ as weather in this season _____ forecast was so bad. 4. The building work is still d. _____ whether or not on schedule _____ I catch an earlier train.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Can we see ___(1)___the Earth is a globe? Yes, we can, when we watch a ship that sails out to sea. If we watch closely, we see that the ship begins ___(2)___ The bottom of the ship disappears first and then the ship seems to sink lower and lower, ___(3)___ we can only see the top of the ship and then we see nothing at all. What is hiding the ship from us? It is the Earth. Stick a pin most of the way into an orange and ___(4)__ turn the orange away from you. You will see the pin disappear, ___(5)___ a ship does on the Earth.
1.
(a) if
(b) where
(c) that
(d) whether
2.
(a) being disappeared
(b) to be disappeared
(c) to have disappeared
(d) to disappear
3.
(a) until
(b) since
(c) after
(d) by the time
4.
(a) reluctantly
(b) accidentally
(c) slowly
(d) passionately
5.
(a) the same
(b) alike
(c) just as
(d) by the way
Pick out the most effective word to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Rohan is too ______ as far as his food habits are concerned.
