2.
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:
1. There is much that lies badly broken in India today. The economy desperately
needs to be repaired, as do rural distress, the job crisis and the free-falling rupee.
The country's institutions demand urgently to be rebuilt the media, police,
judiciary, universities, the planning process, the Election Commission of India. But
above all, if there is one thing that stands most dangerously damaged, it is our
constitutional pledge of a secular democracy. The imagination of secularism in the
Indian Republic was rooted in its singularly pluralist civilisational ethos, in the
lives and work of Ashoka and Akbar, in the teachings of Buddha, Kabir and
Nanak It was illuminated by our struggle for freedom. in the humanist and
egalitarian convictions of Gandhi and Ambedkar. Maulana Azad and Nehru. It was
the central iridescent idea that this newly freed country would belong equally to all
the people. People of no religion, no language, no caste, no ethnicity, no gender.
no class would be entitled to lay claim to the country more than any other
2.Secularism is the soul of India's Constitution. Today the letter of this
constitution remains unaltered, but its soul is mangled and choked. Parties seem to
have accepted that India is no longer the secular country born of the legacy of
India's freedom struggle, but a majoritarian Hindu country. In this new India,
people of minority religions, castes and gender are second-class. Their safety and
well-being are dependent now on the consent and will of the majority upper-caste,
patriarchal Hindu, and the dictates of this lindu are interpreted and violently
mediated by the ideology of Hindutva.
3. India is today a wasteland of compassion. It will take generations to clean out
the toxins of hate from Indian society. It is a battle that must be waged with
courage, with
perseverance and with love. History in the end is on our side
1.
LAnswer the following questions:
2x4=8
What is secularism?
11 What is the status of minority religion in India?
What demands to be rebuilt in India?
Who advocated the idea of secularism in our culture?
Answers
Answer:
2.
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:
1. There is much that lies badly broken in India today. The economy desperately
needs to be repaired, as do rural distress, the job crisis and the free-falling rupee.
The country's institutions demand urgently to be rebuilt the media, police,
judiciary, universities, the planning process, the Election Commission of India. But
above all, if there is one thing that stands most dangerously damaged, it is our
constitutional pledge of a secular democracy. The imagination of secularism in the
Indian Republic was rooted in its singularly pluralist civilisational ethos, in the
lives and work of Ashoka and Akbar, in the teachings of Buddha, Kabir and
Nanak It was illuminated by our struggle for freedom. in the humanist and
egalitarian convictions of Gandhi and Ambedkar. Maulana Azad and Nehru. It was
the central iridescent idea that this newly freed country would belong equally to all
the people. People of no religion, no language, no caste, no ethnicity, no gender.
no class would be entitled to lay claim to the country more than any other
2.Secularism is the soul of India's Constitution. Today the letter of this
constitution remains unaltered, but its soul is mangled and choked. Parties seem to
have accepted that India is no longer the secular country born of the legacy of
India's freedom struggle, but a majoritarian Hindu country. In this new India,
people of minority religions, castes and gender are second-class. Their safety and
well-being are dependent now on the consent and will of the majority upper-caste,
patriarchal Hindu, and the dictates of this lindu are interpreted and violently
mediated by the ideology of Hindutva.
3. India is today a wasteland of compassion. It will take generations to clean out
the toxins of hate from Indian society. It is a battle that must be waged with
courage, with
perseverance and with love. History in the end is on our side
1.
LAnswer the following questions:
2x4=8
What is secularism?
11 What is the status of minority religion in India?
What demands to be rebuilt in India?
Who advocated the idea of secularism in our culture?2.
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:
1. There is much that lies badly broken in India today. The economy desperately
needs to be repaired, as do rural distress, the job crisis and the free-falling rupee.
The country's institutions demand urgently to be rebuilt the media, police,
judiciary, universities, the planning process, the Election Commission of India. But
above all, if there is one thing that stands most dangerously damaged, it is our
constitutional pledge of a secular democracy. The imagination of secularism in the
Indian Republic was rooted in its singularly pluralist civilisational ethos, in the
lives and work of Ashoka and Akbar, in the teachings of Buddha, Kabir and
Nanak It was illuminated by our struggle for freedom. in the humanist and
egalitarian convictions of Gandhi and Ambedkar. Maulana Azad and Nehru. It was
the central iridescent idea that this newly freed country would belong equally to all
the people. People of no religion, no language, no caste, no ethnicity, no gender.
no class would be entitled to lay claim to the country more than any other
2.Secularism is the soul of India's Constitution. Today the letter of this
constitution remains unaltered, but its soul is mangled and choked. Parties seem to
have accepted that India is no longer the secular country born of the legacy of
India's freedom struggle, but a majoritarian Hindu country. In this new India,
people of minority religions, castes and gender are second-class. Their safety and
well-being are dependent now on the consent and will of the majority upper-caste,
patriarchal Hindu, and the dictates of this lindu are interpreted and violently
mediated by the ideology of Hindutva.
3. India is today a wasteland of compassion. It will take generations to clean out
the toxins of hate from Indian society. It is a battle that must be waged with
courage, with
perseverance and with love. History in the end is on our side
1.
LAnswer the following questions:
2x4=8
What is secularism?
11 What is the status of minority religion in India?
What demands to be rebuilt in India?
Who advocated the idea of secularism in our culture?
Answer:
1. secularism is the soul of Indian constitution
2.