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प्रश्न
Why does Dr. Barnard find suffering of children heartbreaking?
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उत्तर
He has always found the suffering of young children heart-breaking. Especially because they have total faith in doctors. They believe doctors will help. They don’t complain even after undergoing a mutilating surgery.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What were the various jobs undertaken by the little boys?
How did the narrator help the boys on Sunday?
How was the family affected by the war?
Which character do you like the most in the story and why?
Why does the author refer to himself as being in ‘a minority’?
What thoughts troubled Dr. Christiaan Barnard as he neared the end of his career as a heart surgeon?
Who encouraged them and how?
How does Dr. Barnard know the boy who played the trolley’s driver?
What happened when the doctor couple were crossing the street?
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What did Hillary do with his wet boots?
Why did Hillary become clumsyfingered and slow-moving?
What did Hillary mean by saying “We had had enough to do the job, but by no means too much”?
What did the photograph portray?
What was Pedanna’s suggestion to their father?
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According to the author, what are we more conscious of?
How can we sweeten our life’s journey?
‘Curtailment of private liberty is done to establish social order’ – Do you agree?
What do you infer from Gardiner’s essay ‘On the rule of the Road'?
"My right to swing my fist ends, where your nose begins." Elucidate with reference to, ‘On the Rule of the Road’.
Civilization can only exist when the public collectively accepts constraints on its freedom of action – Explain.
Para 18
My first feelings were of relief–
relief that there were no more steps to
cut, no more ridges to traverse, and no
more humps to tantalize us with hopes
of success. I looked at Tenzing. In spite of
the balaclava helmet, goggles, and oxygen
mask – all encrusted with long icicles–that
concealed his face, there was no disguising
his grin of delight as he looked all around
him. We shook hands, and then Tenzing
threw his arm around my shoulders and
we thumped each other on the back until
we were almost breathless. It was 11.30
a.m. The ridge had taken us two and a
half hours, but it seemed like a lifetime
To the east was our giant
Describe the feelings of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing as they reached the top of the Summit. (Para 18)
‘There is no height, no depth that the spirit of man, guided by higher Spirit cannot attain’. Discuss the above statement in the context of the achievement of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing.
