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On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following question by ticking the most appropriate options. Give reasons for your choice.
"Once you decide to change the system, such problems have to be confronted." Which problems are referred to here?
Options
keeping kitchens ritually pure
discrimination and boycott on the basis of one's faith
differences in the way people of different communities live
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Solution
discrimination and boycott on the basis of one's faith
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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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Role Play:
Your teacher will divide the class into groups of four and ask them to act out the following roles:
Kalam
Ramanadha Sastry
Aravindan
Shivaprakasan
In your group you should play the role allocated to you by engagmg in a conversation in which the friends
a) Express surprise and joy at meeting each other after nearly fifty years
b) Fondly recall their childhood times
c) Compare the problems facing the country then with the problems she is facing now.
d) Discuss what can be done to rid her of these problems
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After the role play, your teacher will invite some of the groups to share with others what problems they discussed and the solutions they proposed.
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He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row.
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