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प्रश्न
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
Father gave Kalam the example of the seagull to
पर्याय
encourage him to be adventurous and fearless
encourage him to study the science of flying
encourage him to be creative and imaginative
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उत्तर
Father gave Kalam the example of the seagull to encourage him to be adventurous and fearless
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संबंधित प्रश्न
WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit –
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
— Rabindranath Tagore
- Why does the poet say, ‘Where the mind is without fear’ ?
- What are the narrow domestic walls being referred to ?
- Why are they ‘narrow ’ ?
- How /when does the ‘clear stream of reason’ lose its way ?
- What is the poet’s appeal ?
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
Lakshmana Sastry made the newly appointed teacher realize that
Complete the following sentence.
Kalam feels he had a very secure childhood because .....................................
Complete the following sentence.
The suspension of train halt at Rameshwaram station proved to be a blessing in disguise for Kalam because .................................................................
Complete the following sentence.
Kalam continues to feel proud about the money he had earned in childhood by picking up bundles of newspaper because ................ ............................
Complete the following sentence.
The salient feature of Kalam's relationship with his three childhood friends was that .........................................................................................
Complete the following sentence.
Two unique examples of communal harmony and brotherhood of mankind are .......................................................................................................
Role Play:
Your teacher will divide the class into groups of four and ask them to act out the following roles:
Kalam
Ramanadha Sastry
Aravindan
Shivaprakasan
In your group you should play the role allocated to you by engagmg in a conversation in which the friends
a) Express surprise and joy at meeting each other after nearly fifty years
b) Fondly recall their childhood times
c) Compare the problems facing the country then with the problems she is facing now.
d) Discuss what can be done to rid her of these problems
(Refer to the SWOT analysis of lndia)
After the role play, your teacher will invite some of the groups to share with others what problems they discussed and the solutions they proposed.
Read each of the following sentences from the story and tick the word/phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
My brother-in-law Jallaluddin would tell me stories about the War which I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest's son sitting with a Muslim boy.
Read each of the following sentence from the story and tick the word/ phrase that gives the correct meaning for the italicized word/ phrase in the context in which they are used here.
Sivasubramania Iyer was not perturbed, nor did he get angry with his wife
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
Why is national integration important for a country like India ?
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
How can we bind the people of the country and create an emotional bond ?
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
How can we attain internal freedom for the people of the country?
Read the passage carefully and familiarize yourself with the new words used in the passage by working out their meanings. Match the words in column A
with their meanings in column B.
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) foster | (i) the act of accepting someone as a part of a group |
| (b) pernicious | (ii) excessive enthusiasm for an extreme political or religious cause |
| (c) integration | (iii) encourage the development of |
| {d) fanaticism | (iv) agreement and support resulting from shared interests, feelings or opinions |
| (e) solidarity | (v) having a harmful effect. |
Organize a group discussion on the topic : “Destabilizing Forces Within a Country : Challenges to a Nation”.
