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LADAKH: A SACRED PLACE
On the way to Stok, the village ten mies outside Leh, there is a suspension bridge that
spans the Indus. From the distance, it looks like a circus tent, it is so covered with prayer
Hlags of every colour. Tum sitting on the seat next to the driver, a young Ladakhi, and I
ask him, "Why are there so many prayer flags?" He looks at me as if I am mad. "If there
were no prayer flags, the river would get angry."
It is such a festive and exuberant gesture, covering the steel lines of the bridge with
scarves and mantras and holy dragons, that I want to sing. As the bus crosses the
bridge, the prayer flags flap against it. The driver turns to me and smiles. "Every time
I am crossing the bridge I am saying my prayers. It is boly, this bridge." How old is the
bridge? He does not know. It is as if it had always been there like the pile of stones in
the mountains, like the stupas, like the small wayside shrines. The spirit of Ladakh has
changed it into a shrine, an object of worship. Does the bridge have its guardian Buddha?
The driver smiled and did not answer.
The rocks on the sides of the paths are sprinkled with small blue flowers, a fierce wild
green grass grows between the boulders; with every quarter of an hour the heat increases
and the rocks change, growing more and more fantastical, wings of cathedrals, falling
into the river below, large fluted columns, like the hermit perches of Cappadocia, with
golden moss spilling over from their height, and yet it is not the rocks and their dazzling
forms that move me most.
Resting on the top of a mountain pass, I found that the rock I was sitting on was ringed
by white stones, heaped there by travellers over many years; walking on and on into the
highest parts of the pass, I found just as I was too tired to go any further, that there
was a deserted shepherd's hut, with its roof torn off by the wind, and a small rose-bush
growing in the shelter of one of its walls. I sat in it and ate my bread and cheese. On
the wall the shepherd had written with charcoal from the fire, 'Om', just the one letter,
again and again. And under each letter he had sketched a rough Buddha's face.
-Andrew Harvey (excerpts from 'A Journey to Ladakh)
1. How does the suspension bridge appear from far?
2. What answer did the young Ladakhi driver give in response to the narrator's
question?
3. What did the narrator observe about the shepherd's hut?
4. What had the shepherd done on the hut's walls?
5. Pick out one word from the passage which means the same as "drawn".
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1. Method of growing two or
more crops in a definite pattern
simultaneously on the same field.(13words)
4. Crops grown in rainy season.(6words)
10. Plants that are grown prior to crop and plants and mulched into the soil.
(two words)(11words)
11. The preferred agronomic
characteristic in cereals.(9words)
12. Process of crossing two plants of different species belonging to thesame genus(13words)
13. We can also improve crop varietyby introducing a ___ to get the preferred characteristics(4words)
14. A biotic factor that can reduce thecrop produce(8words)
2. Term used in relation with the
duration of sunlight.(11words)
3. Destroys soil fertility if used
constantly(11words)
5. Process of crossing two genetically dissimilar plants.(13words)
6. Method to kill pests that destroy
grains.10 words
7. System of farming which uses little or no chemicals. (two words)(14words)
8. A biotic factor that can reduce thecrop produce(9words)
9. Manure prepared by decomposition of farm waste using earthworms.(12words)
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