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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Rickshaw had been a roaring success right from the day they had first appeared, because they provided a means of transport cheaper than horse-drawn carriage or taxicab. One day in 1930, Bipin Narendra bought himself two of these machines. They cost two hundred rupees each, new, but he had managed to unearth some second-hand ones for only fifty rupees. He hired them out immediately to two Bihari expatriates from his village. Later he was to borrow sixteen hundred rupees from his boss and buy eight more brand-new Japanese rickshaws. That was beginning of his fortune. After a few years, the man who from that time was only referred to as “The Bihari” owned approximately thirty carriages. With the rent that he collected each day, he bought a plot of land in Ballygunge in South Calcutta, and had a house built on it. Ballygunge was a quite a poor area, occupied for most part of Hindu and Muslim employees, where the price of land was not very expensive. In the meantime the Bihari got married and thereafter, every time his wife became pregnant he had one more room built onto his house. Now he was owner of a four storey mansion, the highest in the area, for his wife had given him nine children, three sons and six daughters. The Bihari had been had worker. For nearly half century he had got up every morning at five and set off on his bicycle to do rounds of the rickshaw pullers, to collect payment from daily hiring, “I could neither read or write” he was to say with pride, “But I have always known how to add and I never missed out on a single rupee that was owned to me.,” As each time one of his sons reached working age his business diversified his business affairs. He kept eldest one with him to assist him in the management of his fleet of vehicles that came now more than three hundred. The second one he put in charge of a bolt factory that supplied the Railways. For the youngest he bought a bus which covered the route from Dalhousie Square, to the suburb of Garia. To obtain franchise for this particularly lucrative route, he had given a substantial bribe to a babu at a Municipality. As for his daughters, he had married all of them, and married them well. A fortunate father indeed was the Bihari! The eldest was the wife of a Lieutenant-colonel in the army, the next in the line that of a naval commander. He had married the two daughters next in line to tradesman the fifth to a zamindar in Bihar, and the youngest to an engineer in the highways department, a man who worked for the Bengal government. All in all, it was a superb accomplishment for the descendants of an illiterate peasant. Yet in the evening of his life, the Bihari had lost much of his former enthusiasm. ”Business is not what it used to be”, he lamented. “Nowadays you have to be furtive about earning money. Effort, success and good fortune have become crimes. Each successive government controlling our country has tried to liquidate the rich and appropriate the fruits of their labours, as if by making the rich poorer, the poor become richer! Here in Bengal, the Communists have instituted laws to restrict private ownership. They have decreed that no one individual has the right to own more than ten rickshaws. Ten rickshaws, can you imagine! As if I could support a family on ten rickshaws when I saw constantly to pay out for maintenance, repairs, accidents, and baksheesh for the police. So I had to look after my own interests. I did what all the large landowners did when they were prohibited from owning more than forty acres of land; I transferred the title of ownership for my carriages to the names of my nine children and twenty-two grand children. And just for record, I even put some rickshaws in the name of a dozen nephews. Officially my three hundred and forty- six vehicles belong to thirty –five different owners, If fact, the one and only master of the entire fleet was the Bihari -------------Adapted from City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre Q4) Given below are four words and phrases. Find the words which have similar meaning in the passage. (4) 1) Emigrant 2) Remunerative 3) Intersts 4) TransferredPlot 2) Land 3) Century 4) Bolt Q4C) Answer the following questions in your own words as briefly as possible. Q1) What was advantage of a rickshaw was means of transport? (1) Q2) At what stages did he gradually diversify his business affairs? (1) Q3) How was the communist government restricting private ownership? How did Bipin Narendra get around this control (1) Q4) Why is he described as fortunate Father​

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हमने दुःख के महासिंधु से सुख का मोती बीना है और उदासी के पंजों से हँसने का सुख छीना है मान और सम्मान हमें ये याद दिलाते है पल पल भीतर भीतर मरना है पर बाहर बाहर जीना है।

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