How did the narrator feel after the passing away of gandhiji
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Answer the following of the textual Questions:
1. When was the author called to Birla House?
= When the author was having tea at home on the evening of 30th January in 1948, she was called to Birla House.
2. How was the author called to Birla House?
= The author was called to Birla House by telephone.
3. When was Gandhiji shot?
= Gandhiji was shot when he was on his way to a prayer meeting.
4. Whom did the author find on reaching Birla House?
= On reaching Birla House the author found that Gandhiji's relatives and followers had gathered round his body.
5. What was there in the room as Gandhiji breathed his last?
= There was an unnatural silence in the room where Gandhiji had breathed his last.
6. How did the words of Gandhiji's death spread through Delhi?
= The words of Gandhiji's death spread through Delhi like a flame fanned by wind.
7. What could one see out of every window?
= One could see out of every window a brown blur of faces.
8. Why couldn't the people speak in the beginning?
= The people who had gathered around the Birla House were too stunned to speak in the beginning.
9. When did the people calm down a little?
= People calmed down a little when they would be allowed to see Gandhiji before his funeral.
10. When does a person begin to whimper?
= When a person receives a shock at the death of a near and dear one, he or she begins to whimper.
11. What question is uppermost in the mind of the mourning people?
= The question that is uppermost in the mind of the mourning people is what will happen to them now that their guardian has left them.
12. How did the people look like?
= The people looked like lost children.
13. What was the broadcast telling the people?
= The broadcast was telling the people of India that their Bapu was no more.
14. When was Gandhiji's funeral decided to take place?
=Gandhiji's funeral was decided to take place on the day after his death.
15. What did Padmasi tell the followers of Gandhiji?
= Padmasi told the followers of Gandhiji that they would walk with Gandhiji's procession.
16. Who was Padmasi?
= Padmasi was Mrs. Naidu's daughter.
17. Who watched the procession and how?
= Thousands of people watched the procession silently.
18. How was average Gandhiji taken to the cremation ground?
= Gandhiji’s body was taken on an open truck covered with flowers.
19. Where and how did Gandhiji walk?
= Gandhiji walked with a staff in hand over a large part of India.
20.What was open to average Indian?
= Walking was the only open way to average Indian.
21. What does walk normally require?
= Walk normally required no vehicle except one's body that cost one nothing but one's energy.
22. Why was the walk agonizing to the author?
= Gandhiji's death sent a shock wave through his followers. The author was deeply pained by it. So it was a agonizing walk for her.
23. What could not the author accept?
= The author could not accept the fact that this man was never again going to walk with them.
24. How did the people do on the train?
= On the train people did not weep anymore but instead continued to sing bhajans.
25. How were Gandhiji's ashes taken to Allahabad?
= Gandhiji's ashes were taken to Allahabad in a special train some days after the funeral.
25.What was the feeling of the author once she was back in Delhi?
= The author felt at sea as the magic circle she had grown up in had vanished.
26. What did Bapu do for the ordinary folk?
= Bapu brought the ordinary folk out of their ignorance and indifference.
27. What would happen to India after Bapu had passed away?
= Even after Bapu had passed away his India would continue to live in his children.
28. Why didn't people weep anymore?
= People didn't weep anymore because they could feel Gandhi's presence among the flowers and the songs.
29. Why did the author feel unprotected?
= The author felt unprotected because at the death of Bapu the magic circle vanish
30. State whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/Phrases/words in support of your answer:
a) The author received an urgent telephone call in the morning. False
S.S - "I was having tea at the evening of 30th January ..."
b) People attempted to break into the Birla house. True
S.S- " They jostled one another in a stampede to break into the house."
c) The news of Gandhiji’s death did not shock the people. False
S.S- "It was the question in many of our hearts as we sat, still shocked and unbelieving."
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