Question

Like a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you glimpse only the light inside, is the incandescence of a man.The body, almost irrelevant, exist only like a case of shadows.(1x3)a)If ‘the lantern’ is the man, what would its ‘walls’ be?b)What is housed within the thin walls?c)What general conclusion does the writer draw from this comparison?

Answer 1

The answer to the questions are given below:

(a) If 'the lantern' is the man, its 'walls' would be a skeleton-like physical structure.

(b) The light/glow is housed within the thin walls.

(c) From the comparison, the writer draws the general conclusion that 'it is not the body but the eternal soul that matters'.  

This is the tale of a gathering between two unprecedented individuals, the two of them 'debilitated', or 'diversely abled' as we presently say.

• Stephen Hawking is perhaps the best researcher within recent memory. He experiences a type of loss of motion that limits him to a wheelchair and permits him to 'talk' simply by punching buttons on a PC, which represents him in a machine-like voice.
• Firdaus Kanga is an author and columnist who lives and works in Mumbai. Kanga was brought into the world with 'fragile bones' that would in general break effectively when he was a youngster. Like Hawking, Kanga moves around in a wheelchair.
• The two extraordinary men trade musings on living life in a wheelchair, and on how the purported 'ordinary' individuals respond to the impaired.