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Fill in the blank by choosing the most appropriate option:
Mani, along with his friends, ________________ for basketball practice every morning.
Options
goes
are going
go
were going
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Solution
Mani, along with his friends, goes for basketball practice every morning.
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In Mann Joseph's debut novel Serious Men, the protagonist, Ayyan Mani, is a U1, scheming Dalit-Buddhist who almost gets away with passing off his partially deaf son, Adi, as a prodigy, a genius who can recite the first 1,000 prime numbers. The garb of satire-where almost every character cuts a sorry figure-gives the author the licence to offer one' of the most bleak and pessimistic portrayals of urban Dalits. Despite his savage portrayal of Dalit (and female) characters-or perhaps because of it? Serious Men has won critical appreciation front a cross-section of readers and critics.
At a time when a formidable body of Dalit literature writing by Dalits about Dalit lives has created a distinct space for itself, how and why is it that a novel such as Serious Men, with its gleefully skewed portrayal of an angry Dalit man, manages to win such accolades? In American literature and particularly in the case of African- American authors and characters these issues of representation have been debated for decades. But in India, the sustained refusal to address issues related to caste in everyday life and the continued and unquestioned predominance of a Brahminical stranglehold over cultural production have led us to a place where non-Dalit portrayal of Dalits in literature, cinema and art remains the norm. The journey of modem Dalit literature has been a difficult one. But even though it has not necessarily enjoyed the support of numbers, we must engage with what Dalits are writing not simply for reasons of authenticity, or as a concession to identity politics, but simply because of the aesthetic value of this body of writing, and for the insights it offers into the human condition. In a society that is still largely unwilling to recognise Dalits as equal, rights bearing human beings, in a society that is inherently indifferent to the everyday violence against Dalits, in a society unwilling to share social and cultural resources equitably with Dalits unless mandated by law (as seen in the anti-reservation discourse), Dalit literature has the potential to humanise non- Dalits and sensitise them to a world into which they have no insight. But before we can understand what Dalit literature is seeking to accomplish, we need first to come to terms with the stranglehold of non-Dalit representations of Dalits.
Rohinton Miary's (A Fine Balance), published 15 years ago, chronicles the travails of two Dalit characters uncle Ishvar and nephew Omprakash who migrate to Bombay and yet cannot escape brutality. While the present of the novel is set at the time of the Emergency, Ishvar's father Dukhy belongs to the era of the anti-colonial nationalist movement. During one of Dukhi's visits to the town, he chances upon a meeting of the Indian National Congress, where speakers spread the "Mahatma's message regarding the freedom struggle, the struggle for justice," and wiping out "the disease of untouchability; ravaging us for centuries, denying dignity to our fellow human beings."
Neither in the 1940s, where the novel's past is set nor in the Emergency period of the 1970swhen the minds and bodies Ishvar and Omprakash, are savaged by the state-do we find any mention of a figure like BR Ambedkar or of Dalit movements. In his 'nationalist' understanding of modem Indian history, Mistry seems to have not veered too far from the road charted by predecessors like Mulk Raj Anand and Premchand. Sixty years after Premchand, Mistry's literary imagination seems stuck in the empathy realism mode, trapping Dalits in abjection. Mistry happily continues the broad stereotype of the Dalit as a passive sufferer, without consciousness of caste politics.
"It is not as if Dalit movements _________ not active during the periods that form A Fine Balance's backdrop." Select the most appropriate choice to fill in the blank in the above sentence:
Select the best option from the four alternatives.
We can't ________ making a decision. We have to decide now.
Pick the correct answer choice for filling the blank in the following sentences.
He __________ and escaped.
Fill in the blank by choosing the most appropriate option:
If you promise ____________ angry with me, I'll tell you what I broke.
The salt spray has gradually _____ the bridge.
I am very much ________ to meet you
Fill in the blank.
Mother takes everything in her ______.
Select the best option from the four alternatives given
Galileo said, “The Earth ______ around the sun”.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
A century ago, the process of choosing a career was a much simpler matter than it is today. A boy often followed in his father's footsteps. His sister learned the household skills that ___ (I) ____her to become a wife and mother. Now-a-days, young people grow up in a much free society _____ ( 2) ____ they enjoy almost unlimited career opportunities. In recent years, there ____ ( 3)____ an enormous increase in the kinds of vocations from which it is possible to choose. In addition, many of the
barriers to career, opportunities that existed only a few decades ago, such as ___(4) ____ based on sex or religion or ethnic origins, are ____ (5) ____disappearing.
1.
(a) had prepared
(b) may prepare
(c) was prepared
(d) would prepare
2.
(a) where
(b) when
(c) why
(d) whom
3.
(a) had been
(b) has been
(c) will be
(d) would have
4.
(a) judgement
(b) perception
(c) goodwill
(d) discrimination
5.
(a) rapidly
(b) incessantly
(c) categorically
(d) vigilantly
Everyone was advised not to go near the seashore as high tide was ______.
