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You are advised to spend not more than 30 minutes in answering Question 1
and 20 minutes in answering Question 2.
Question 1
(Do not spend more than 30 minutes on this question.)
Write a composition (300 - 350 words) on any one of the following
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(a) Write an original story entitled: Lost the Game But Won the Heart
(b) It is better to live a life of cautious progress than to lead a life full of risks'. Express your views
either for or against this statement.
(c) Describe an incident that changed your opinion about a person and proved that the
first impression is not always the last impression. Give details about the person, whom
you did not like initially but later on became one of your close friends
(d) Imagine that you get a chance to be a space tourist. Narrate your experience of being
in the space and your feelings on returning to the earth.
(e) Study the picture given on the next Page. Write a short story or description or an account
of what the picture suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the
picture or you may take suggestions from it.
Question 2
(Do not spend more than 20 minutes on this question.)
Select one of the follo
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Answer:
Explanation:
Lakshmi was the third child in the family of 5 children. Her mother was a poor labourer who worked at the nearby construction site along with her father. Lakshmi was 7 years old. She used to accompany her parents to the construction site.
One day, the manager at the construction site offered to employee Laxmi at a Meagre pay. Her parents considered it as an additional income which would support them and give their consent.
The picture of Italy portrays how Laxmi was made to work hard at breaking stones at the construction site. Even her mother and father used to work hard at the construction site toiling hard in the blazing sun from morning to evening carrying bricks and mortar from one place to another.
Lakshmi would keep breaking Stones in a corner, crying and regretting her fate. Search was her misery that in the days when she should be going to school and playing she had to survive. Search was her irony that instead of Smiles and care freeness, her face was writ large with worry for earning her bread.
Child labour is another name which can be given to this picture. It is a serious brought in the efforts to project the nation as a dynamic country. The root cause of child labour is poverty and to some extent The girl Lakshmi has become symbolic of all child labourers who are exposed to the difficulties of the world at such a tender age. It is a pity to see the coil and shoulder responsibilities which is far more than their shoulders can bear.
The girl is forced to do hazardous work without proper compensation. She is risking her life just to keep her family’s body and soul together. So tragic is her condition that she has turned into a physical and mental wreck. Her week and fragile body seems to suffer from disease.
The government should realise the guilty of the situation and take strict actions to ban child labour. However no man can work unless it is ensured that they are provided with food, shelter and education. Adopting a multi prolonged problem solving approach is required.
Furthermore, this should be incentivised by the provision of education and vocational based skills training for each child. The combination of the right information complemented by the right rewards will combat child labour and in the longer run, poverty.