Question

1. Read the following passage and answer the following questions:

An era, a culture is eventually determined by its news. What is missed out by those who

track the news of that time is lost forever. We know nothing about Shakespeare’s

contemporaries even though some of them may have been better playwrights. We know

nothing about those who came in with Babar, or around the same time, to loot India and

stayed back as rulers. Or the many soldiers of fortune who landed here during the time of

the East India Company. We know of a few and apart from avid historians, no one knows

who led the Portuguese, Dutch or French into India or ran their empires here till they were

dismantled .Why is that? Simple. The media of that time, known as historians, did not

mention them.

We who consume news today see it as a fleeting experience. We observe a powerful image

on TV are moved by its impact or repelled by its horror, and move on. We read a headline

today and can’t even recall it tomorrow. Current news always drives out the old (often with

ruthless cunning) and its only when the media goes back in time to recall a particular story

that we suddenly remember that ,yes, there was something called H D W or Bofors that once

shook up the entire nation and held it in thrall for a decade. We are suddenly reminded that

Congress treasurer LN Mishra was mysteriously killed in a bomb blast on a train and no

one ever knew who killed him or where his secret millions vanished.

Since i’m a journalist i can tell you many such stories. There are others too, full of stories.

But,like news, the stories die with them. History only remembers what it chooses to, or what

is indelibly stamped on its pages. The rest is occasionally recalled as gossip. But is it gossip?

Or is it truth that we are trying to forget so that we can move on and make space in our

hearts and minds for more recent news? Our memory, collective as well as individual, has

limited storage and however many data cards we may insert, there’s simply too much to

absorb and retain. The information surge that hits us every morning is so large, so

intimidating that we remember only a tiny fraction of it. It’s that fraction which actually

scares us by the possibility of impacting our lives.

The gap between news and entertainment was always sacrosanct. News was about facts.

Entertainment was about imagination, ergo fiction. To see them occupy the same media

platforms today is scary for those like me who have spent a lifetime pursuing facts in the

search for news. Even the dividing line has blurred. What we once shunned as preposterous

lies slip in so casually today into our news menu. It’s no one’s fault. It’s just that the fault

lines have shifted. News has become just another consumable, another platform to

commercially exploit. No, don’t blame our journalists and media owners.. They are only

following a global model that, for better or worse, is making our times an entirely forgettable

chapter of history.summery of the passage.
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Answer 1

Explanation:

सॉरी भाई हमें नहीं आता है

Answer 2

Explanation:

मीडिया एंड एंटरटेनमेंट फुल पैसेज एंड आंसर