Question

Mukesh's family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the brightness of their eyes. Mukesh's eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt. We walk down stinking lanes choked with garbage, past homes that remain hovels with crumbling walls, wobbly doors, no windows, crowded with families of humans and animals coexisting in a primaeval state. He stops at the door of one such house, bangs a wobbly iron door with his foot, and pushes it open. We enter a half-built shack. In one part of it, thatched with dead grass, is a firewood stove over which sits a large vessel of sizzling spinach leaves. On the ground, in large aluminium platters, are more chopped vegetables.

When Mukesh and the author were on the way to the former's house, how was the surrounding scenario?

Options

• Lanes were chocked with garbage, doors were wobbly, there were no windows and crowded with families.

• Stinking lanes chocked the garbage and there were crumbling walls with unstable doors with any windows.

• People lived in such a crowded place with families of humans and animals coexisting in an ancient state.

• Walls are crumbled and lanes are stinking as they are chocked with garbage, and also the doors were wobbly.

Answer 1

Lanes were chocked with garbage, doors were wobbly, there were no windows and crowded with families.