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Based on your reading of the passage answer the following question :
What are the steps that we should take to strengthen the nation and its unity ?
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Solution
First, we must identify the force that may blissfully bind the people of the country. We should create an emotional bond and help them share common ideas and values.
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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 ’ ?
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- What is the poet’s appeal ?
S : Strengths
W : Weaknesses
O : Opportunities
T : Threats
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How can we bind the people of the country and create an emotional bond ?
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How can we attain internal freedom for the people of the country?
Organize a group discussion on the topic : “Destabilizing Forces Within a Country : Challenges to a Nation”.
