Question

Answer the following questions on the basis of your reading of the chapter ‘The Silver Lining’

and the poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’.



How can you say that the Bhandaris gave a warm welcome to the narrator?



What is the impact when knowledge is not free?



What breaks the world into fragments?







According to the poet how should knowledge be?​

Answer 1

Question 1

Read the extract and answer the questions that follow: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highWhere knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragmentsBy narrow domestic wallsWhere words come out from the depth of truth What prayer does the poet make for his countrymen in the first line of the extract? Why?

Solution 1

The poet prays that the people of his country may have no fear in their minds. He makes this prayer as this poem was written during the colonial rule in India when radical thoughts and free-spirited people were repressed.