Question

Q.1A) Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: 8m

1. I remember taking punga with a German researcher in India from some provincial town. I think it was Tubingen. She declared, “Indians never travelled. It is something new for them,” I asked, “inside or outside ?” She said, “both”. We know that’s not true. Yes, we did not cross the seas. But there was an ancient practice of yatra or pilgrimage, since before the Buddha’s time. If you join the dots there’s a hug egrid of sacred geography underpinning this enormous subcontinent of ours and we should not be in such a hurry to accept feringhee opinions on ourselves and our ways. Do let us apply our own minds to understanding ourselves, so that neither the feringhee nor our own cynical politicians can make fools of us as they repeatedly have. Just think: there are twelve Jyotirlinga or Shaiva shrines of special sanctity scattered all over India. The Dwadasa Jyotirlinga Stotra lists them: Saurashtre Somanaatham cha, Srishaile Mallikarjunam, Ujjayinyaam Maha Kaalam, Omkaare Mamaleswaram, Himalayeto Kedaram, Daakinyaam Bhima Shankaram, Vaaranaasyaam cha Viswesam, Triyambakam Gautamitate, Paralyaam Vaidyanaatham cha, Naagesam Daarukaavane, Setubandhe Rameshwaram, Grushesam cha Shivaalaye.
2. Then you have the places where bits of Sati’s body are said to have fallen, of which two famous examples are Kamaakhya in Assam and Maihar in Madhya Pradesh. There is a separate Devi circuit memorised as “Kanchi Kamakshi, Madurai Meenakshi, Kashi Vishalakshi”. There’s the Char Dham, which you’ll see shivering small-town South Indians, most woefully clad in thin woolies, staunchly assay in the Himalayas : Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, Yamunotri. Nothing in their entire lives has prepared them for mountain cold, but they gamely quake and quiver on this very holy pilgrimage as an act of pure faith. Each year the Amarnath pilgrims from every corner of India brave the real The south has a six-temple circuit to Kartikeya and the nine important, beautiful Navagraha temples of the Thanjavur district. Plus there are all those great stand-alone temples that you just show up at wherever you’re from and are welcomed at without questions : be it Dakshineshwar in Kolkata or Tirupati. Yes, there are issues at some temples, like not allowing women or non-Hindus. But the issue here is that there’s a dense, huge grid of tirthas and kshetras that has held up Bharat since forever. Other layers were added with Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism and Christianity.
4. The point is, sacred geography is an old, ticking concept. To dismiss it as just stories is unrealistic. Development does NOT have to be exactly there. Think how Kashi, Mathura and Ayodhya became flashpoints only because a certain ruler who died in 1707 disrespected the common people’s beliefs. We’re still paying the price for his deeds, aren’t we ?

Questions:
What falsehood had a German researcher told the author ?
2. Why according to the author are the foreigners and our cynical politicians able to make fools of us ?
3. What are Kamakhya and Maihar temples famous for ?
4. What makes the South Indians go to the Himalayas ?
5. What danger do the pilgrims of Amarnath face ?
6. What was the reason which made Mathura and Ayodhya the flashpoints?
7. Find a word in para 1 which means the same as ‘huge’.
8. Which word in para 1 is opposite of ‘profanity’.​

Answer 1

Answer:

tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long

it would take 10000000 years to read it

Answer 2

Answer:

1. The German researcher had told the author that Indians never travelled. This was false.

2. The foreigners and cynical politicians are able to make fools of us because we do not apply our own minds.

3. Kamakhya and Maihar temples are famous and sacred because it is believed that the bits of Sati’s body had fallen there.

4. South Indians go to Himalayas for pilgrimage.

5. The Amarnath pilgrims face the danger of terrorism.

6. A ruler who died in 1707 did not respect the common people’s belief about the sacredness of Mathura and Ayodhya . This has made these places the flashpoints.

7. enormous.

8. sanctity.