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Question
Looking at earth from the space, Sunita said, “Different countries cannot be seen as separate from here. These lines are on paper. They are made by us.” What do you understand by this?
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Solution
Boundaries between nations are created by humans. The nature has made a single earth where there is no boundary. All of us are same, ‘The inhabitants of the earth’.
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