EXERCISE 147
Read each of the passages carefully and answer the questions given below it.
1. People talk of memorials to him in statues of bronze or marble or pillars and thus they mock him and belie his message. What tribute
shall we pay to him that he would have appreciated ? He has shown us the way to live and the way to die and if we have not under-
stood that lesson, it would be better that we raised no memorial to him, for the only fit memorial is to follow reverently in the path
he showed us and to do our duty in life and in death.
He was a Hindu and an Indian, the greatest in many generations, and he was proud of being a Hindu and an Indian. To him India was
dear, because she had represented throughout the ages certain immutable truths. But though he was intensely religious and came to be
called the Father of the Nation which he had liberated, yet no narrow religious or national bonds confined his spirit. And so he became
the great internationalist, believing in the essential unity of man, the underlying unity of all religions, and the needs of humanity, and
more specially devoting himself to the service of the poor, the distressed and the oppressed millions everywhere.
His death brought more tributes than have been paid at the passing of any other human being in history. Perhaps what would have
pleased him best was the spontaneous tributes that came from the people of Pakistan. On the morrow of the tragedy, all of us forgot
for a while the bitterness that had crept in, the estrangement and conflict of these past months and Gandhiji stood out as the beloved
champion and leader of the people of India, of india as it was before partition cut up this living nation.
What was his great power over the mind and heart of man due to ? Even we realize, that his dominating passion was truth. That truth
led him to proclaim without ceasing that good ends can never be attained by evil methods, that the end itself is distorted if the method
pursued is bad. That truth led him to confess publicly whenever he thought he had made a mistake-Himalayan errors he called some
of his own mistakes. That truth led him to fight evil and untruth wherever he found them, regardless of the consequences. That truth
made the service of the poor and the dispossessed the passion of his life, for where there is inequality and discrimination and suppres-
sion there is injustice and evil and untruth. And thus he became the beloved of all those
who have suffered
from social and political evils,
and the great representative of humanity as it should
be. Because of that truth in him wherever he sat became a temple and where he
-Jawaharlal Nehru
trod was hallowed ground.
1. About whom is the
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passage
written ?
2. Why does Nehru make the difference about being a “Hindu" and an “Indian"? Is there any difference really ?
3. What great lesson did this great man show us for life?
4. Mention some of the virtues of “the great internationalist."
5. Nehru seems to suggest that his hero was “the beloved champion and leader of the people of India” only before
the partition of Pakistan and India. Do you agree with that ? Explain.
6. What did "truth” mean to this great man?
7. Give the meaning of the following: memorials
, immutable, essential, estrangement, spontaneous, discrimination,
dominating, Himalayan.
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Explanation:
Nehru seems to suggest that his hero was “the beloved champion and leader of the people of India” only before
the partition of Pakistan and India. Do you agree with that ? Explain.
Answered by
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Answer:1 .mohandas karamchand Gandhi2.
Explanation:
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