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प्रश्न
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.
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उत्तर
Students to role play as desired above. One version o·f one group is given below :
(a), (b) Kalarn : Oh What a pleasant surprise to meet after nearly fifty years 1
Rarnanadha Sastry : i never expected to see all of you as I am seeing nowi
Ara vindan : I agree with you, Kalarn. No one knew that we all shall meet like this.
Sivaprakasan : Yes, it is a fact. You can guess how many of our childhood friends have met so far 1 Really those days were very carefree and enjoyable 1 Now it is truly amazing and exciting to meet together.
Kalarn : What times were those of our childhood 1 We used to sit together. play and laugh together. Do you remember our new teacher who asked me to sit on the back bench?
Rainanadha Sasty : I can perceive how he felt ashamed of himself when my father asked him to either resign or apologise. He did a good thing to have regretted his lapse.
(c). (d) SiL:aprukasun : Our childhood days were really heavenly and worth relishing. As we grew up, we all separated Kalam went out to pursue higher studies. T became a catering contractor for the Southern Railways Ramanadha became the priest. I realize that times have changed now Now there is fear in the hearts of all caused by regionalism, communalism, religious fanaticism, lingual ism and above all terrorism.
Aravindan : I agree with Sivaprakasan We have the problems of corruption. bribery, cheating, adulteration etc.
Kalam : These were not there in our childhood days. What makes me sad is that we are slowly losing the moral values. These were everything in life in the past. But not now In our childhood days we all were an integral part of one whole society. Now there are feelings of distrust, dishonesty and deception .
Swaprakasan : What pains me much is that we have become self-centred, selfish and opportunistic.
Rama nadha Sczstry : In our childhood days, these things were not known. Then we all had great respects for adult s. grandparents, etc. But now the society is breaking up due to inhuman relationships.
Kalam : No doubt, social and familial values are changing. But what matters is that we still can set things right. The problems pointed out by you facing the society and the country can be tackled successfully if we become honest to ourselves. We shall have to counter these problems by taking the help of the law For instance. we shall have to report to the Ant i-corrupt ion Bureau about those demanding bribery ....
Araujndan : I agree with Kalam. To counter these problems we first shall have to be fearless, upright and true to our consciences. These problems are essentially of a moral nature.
Sivaprakasan : These are problems of a different nature like poverty, hunger. communal riots, terrorism, religious intolerance, exploitation, child labour, regionalism etc.
Kalam. : These can be tackled by discussing across the table. India, you know, is great and has the capacity to get rid of these problems. We mustn't forget that we all are the children of Mother india. We must sit together to thrash out their solutions and first make a plan.
Rurncznadha Sastry : I think we must provide measures for the people to create an emotional bond. Also we must unite them in one great emotional string through basic humanism.
Kalam : i think we must create these values through education, constitution. art, literature. music, national festivals, flag, anthem, sports and Bollywood What is needed is changing the vision of all towards the self, society and the country. After all, we must think that we arc a big family The culture of such a family runs across different religions. cultures, beliefs. faiths etc.
All : We all must work towards building a great country through material progress and humanism. Humanism. you know, used to be our basic ideology and culture and it must continue.
Notes
Teachers to invite some of the groups to share with others the problems discussed above and solutions proposed .
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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 option. Give reason for your choice.
Kalam's childhood was
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate option. Give reason for your choice.
'That forced my cousin Samsuddin' ...... ' That ' here refers to
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate option. Give reason for your choice.
Samsuddin was forced to seek a helping hand because
On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reason for your choices.
As children Kalam and his friends did not have any
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.
Kalam continues to feel proud about the money he had earned in childhood by picking up bundles of newspaper because ................ ............................
Complete the following sentence.
Some traits and values Kalam and his siblings inherited from their parents were .............................................................................................. .
Complete the following sentence.
Two unique examples of communal harmony and brotherhood of mankind are .......................................................................................................
Complete the following sentence.
However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam’s Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam’s mother and grandmother because ……………....
Diary Entry:
Suppose you are Kalam/Ramanadha Sastry. You are upset about being made to sit away from your best friend in the class. Write a diary entry expressing your feelings and reactions. In your diary entry you should
a) Describe the incident briefly
b) Say how you and your friend felt about it
c) Decide what you are going to do about it
Things to do:
1. Narrate the incidents described in the memoir in the form of a comic strip
2. Make a short film on the incidents narrated in the memoir
3. Script and stage a skit on the incident that happened in V grade.
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.
My cousin Samsuddin, was looking for a helping hand to catch the bundles and, as if naturally, I filled the slot.
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.
He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row.
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.
Then the Second World War was over and India's freedom was imminent.
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 attain internal freedom for the people of the country?
