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I like reading journals ______________ novels.
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most than
more than
the best
the less than
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In recent weeks, the writers William Dalrymple and Patrick French, among others, have come before a fusillade of criticism in India, much of it questioning not their facts, not their interpretations, but their foreignness.
"Who gets to write about India?" The Wall Street Journal asked on Wednesday in its own report on this Indian literary feuding. It is a complicated question, not least because to decide who gets to write about India, you would need to decide who gets to decide who gets to write about India. Rather than conjecturing some Committee for the Deciding of the Deciding of Who Gets to Write about India, it might be easier to let writers write what they please and readers read what they wish.
The accusations pouring forth from a section of the Indian commentariat are varied. Some criticism is of a genuine literary nature, fair game, customary, expected. But lately a good amount of the reproaching has been about identity.
In the case of Mr. Dalrymple, a Briton who lives in New Delhi, it is - in the critics' view - that his writing is an act of re-colonization. In the case of Mr. French, it is that he belongs to a group of foreign writers who use business-class lounges and see some merit in capitalism and therefore do not know the real India, which only the commentariat member in question does.
What is most interesting about these appraisals is that their essential nature makes reading the book superfluous, as one of my Indian reviewers openly admitted. (His review was not about the book but about his refusal to read the book.) The book is not necessary in these cases, for the argument is about who can write about India, not what has been written.
For critics of this persuasion, India surely seems a lonely land. A country with a millennial history of Hindus, Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists living peaceably together; a country of hundreds.of dialects in which so many Indians are linguistic foreigners to each other, and happily, tolerantly so; a country that welcomes foreign seekers (of yoga poses, of spiritual wisdom, of ancestral roots) with open arms; a country where, outside the elite world of South Delhi and South Bombay, I have not heard an Indian ask whether outsiders have a right to write, think or exist on their soil.
But it is not just this deep-in-the-bones pluralism that challenges the who-gets-to write- about India contingent. It is also that at the very heart of India's multifarious changes today is this glimmering idea: that Indians must be rewarded for what they do, not who they are.
Identities you never chose - caste, gender, birth order - are becoming less important determinants of fate. Your deeds - how hard you work, what risks you take - are becoming more important.
It is this idea, which I have found pulsating throughout the Indian layers, that leaves a certain portion of the intelligentsia out of sync with the surrounding country. As Mr. French has observed, there is a tendency in some of these writers to value social mobility only for themselves. When the new economy lifts up the huddled masses, then it becomes tawdry capitalism and rapacious imperialism and soulless globalization.
Fortunately for those without Indian passports, the nativists' vision of India is under demographic siege. The young and the relentless are India's future. They could not think more differently from this literatis.
They savor the freedom they are gaining to seek their own level in the society and to find their voice, and they tend to be delighted at the thought that some foreigners do the same in India and love their country as much as they do.
"But with many outsiders' India-related books recently hitting bookstores there, the sensitivity ___________ flared into a bout of vigorous literary nativism, with equally vigorous counterpunches." Select the most appropriate choice to fill in the blank in the above sentence:
Complete the sentence by filling in the appropriate blank/blanks from the options provided.
It will take some time for many South Koreans to ________ the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to ________ what to make of their northern cousins.
The sentence has one or two missing elements, as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fit the meanings of the sentence as a whole.
While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers -the incomprehension of her colleagues – octogenarian Nobel laureateBarbara McClintock has lived to __________ the triumph of her once ___________ scientific theories.
The president called upon politicians not to _______ themselves with communal and parochial forces.
Read the following newspaper report and. put the verbs in brackets into the most suitable form. indicate your choice in the provided box.
A woman _______ (1) __________ (take) to hospital after her car collided with a lorry near Noida yesterday. She ________(2) _________ (allow) home later after treatment. The road __________ (3) _________ (block) for an hour after the accident, and traffic had to ________ (4) ___________ (divert). A police inspector said afterwords: ' The woman was lucky. She could _________ (5) _________(kill).
1) (a) is taken, (b) took, (c) was taken, (d) take.
2) (a) allow, (b) is allowed, (c) allowed, (d) was allowed
3) (a) was blocked, (b) block, (c) is blocked, (d) be blocked
4) (a) diverted, (b) be diverted, (c) was diverted, (d) is diverted
5) (a) was killed, (b) have been killed, (c) killed, (d) kill
Choose the correct option out of the four choices given.
Nobody in our group is a genius __________ winning friends and in convincing people.
Fill in the blank.
Her true feelings manifested themselves in her sarcastic asides; only then was her _________ revealed.
Following questions are based on the various Figures of Speech.
Which of the following statements is not an example of Litotes?
In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentence, there are four pairs of words. Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Handicrafts constitute an important ______ of the decentralised sector of India's economy and __________ employment to over six million artisans.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
A century ago, the process of choosing a career was a much simpler matter than it is today. A boy often followed in his father's footsteps. His sister learned the household skills that ___ (I) ____her to become a wife and mother. Now-a-days, young people grow up in a much free society _____ ( 2) ____ they enjoy almost unlimited career opportunities. In recent years, there ____ ( 3)____ an enormous increase in the kinds of vocations from which it is possible to choose. In addition, many of the
barriers to career, opportunities that existed only a few decades ago, such as ___(4) ____ based on sex or religion or ethnic origins, are ____ (5) ____disappearing.
1.
(a) had prepared
(b) may prepare
(c) was prepared
(d) would prepare
2.
(a) where
(b) when
(c) why
(d) whom
3.
(a) had been
(b) has been
(c) will be
(d) would have
4.
(a) judgement
(b) perception
(c) goodwill
(d) discrimination
5.
(a) rapidly
(b) incessantly
(c) categorically
(d) vigilantly
