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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 ……………....
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Solution
However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam’s Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam’s mother and grandmother because these persons symbolise communal harmony, kindness, generosity and social tolera nce. National integration is fully secure in the hands of such people
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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
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- 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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