Question

1.My desire to have a handful of my ashes thrown in the Ganga at Allahabad has no religious significance, so far as I am concerned. I have no religious sentiment in the matter. I have been attached to the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers in Allahabad ever since my childhood and, as I have grown older, this attachment has also grown. I have watched their varying moods as the season changed, and have often thought of the history and myth and tradition and song and that have become attached to them through the long ages and become oar of their flowing waters.
2.The Ganga especially is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her racial memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India’s age-long culture and civilization ever-changing, ever-flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga. She reminds me of the snow-covered peaks and the deep valleys of the Himalayas, which I have loved so much, and the rich and vast plains below, where my life and work have been cast.
3.Smiling and dancing in the morning sunlight, and dark and gloomy and full of mystery as the evening shadows fall; a narrow, slow and graceful stream in winter, and a vast roaming thing during the monsoon broad-bosomed almost as the sea, and with something of the sea’s power to destroy; the Ganga has been to me a symbol and memory of the past of India running into the present and flowing on to the great ocean of the future.
QA1. What inference do you derive from the winter’s will in which he says that after his death his ashes be thrown in the Ganga at Allahabad?
2. Analyse the line:
“She has been a symbol of India’s age-long culture and civilization, ever-, changing, ever- flowing, yet ever the same Ganga.
3.Evaluate the writer’s love for nature.
4.What has the Ganga been to the writer?
5.Which word has the same meaning as sad? (P-3)

Answer 1

5)gloomy........................

Answer 2

Answer:

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