Explain, with reference to the context, any one of the following passages.
(a) As soon as I alighted, a group of young children gathered around me. They were selling baskets- hand-woven, reed baskets with simple designs and patterns. They held the baskets high, shouting words, I did not know but conveying unmistakably their desire. These were refugee children.
(b) The extravagant and barbarous hecatombs of the vedic age have long since been forgotten, though animal sacrifice continues in some sects. Widows have long ceased to be burnt on their husband's pyres. Girls may not by law be married in childhood. In buses and trains all over India Brahmans rub shoulders with the lowest castes without consciousness of grave pollution and the temples are open to all by law. Caste is vanishing.
(c) No one could say I am a beauty. I weigh 340 grams, am red-brown in colour and have an unimpressive shape. I am John's dedicated slave-his heart. I hang by ligaments in the centre of his chest.
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The writer talks about a group of refugee children who were selling baskets. The baskets were of various types - hand-woven, reed baskets. They were adorned with plain designs and patterns. The writer felt as if they were trying to get their desires across people by shouting some words that the author did not understand. This incident took place as soon as the author ascended from his train when these children surrounded him.
Explanation:
(a) As soon as I alighted, a group of young children gathered around me. They were selling baskets- hand-woven, reed baskets with simple designs and patterns. They held the baskets high, shouting words, I did not know but conveying unmistakably their desire. These were refugee children.
The given extract is taken from 'A Girl With A Basket' by William C. Douglas.
The author describes his encounter with some refugee children while traveling from Delhi to Ranikhet. Here, he met some refugees who were caught in the middle of the India-Pakistan partition. He was surrounded by children at one station where he went off the train.
The story is about how the beauty of a refugee girl captivated him. He offered some money to her, however, she returned it. The pride and dignity of that girl made the author fall in trance.
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