Question

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. Again I am writing to you from prison after many years. I came here with the new inoon and it is live dan
now. The slender crescent has put on more substance and nightly it grows fuller. I was arrested the day after
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Diwali and brought here from Allahabad. The next day, after my arrival, was Eid-the great Muslim festival
ending the Ramzan fast. So in feasting and rejoicing-I came here, or was brought here. My trial lasted two days
and today I was sentenced. There were three counts on three speeches I had delivered a month ago in
Gorakhpur district and on each charge I was sentenced to a year and four months' rigorous imprisonment,
each sentence to run consecutively, that is four years in all. That is the biggest sentence I have so far had in my
longish experience.
2. Four years seem a long time, and yet in this world of shock and change it makes little difference what period is
fixed for a sentence. For my part I might as well be here as elsewhere. For the last five days, my tired mind and
body have been clamouring for rest and I have slept more than I have done for many months. The mind has not
been so restful. It is a wayward creature and not easy to control. Soon, I suppose, it will get into tune with my
surroundings.
3. And now about you, my darling one. My arrest and sentence must not make the least bit of difference to what
you intend doing. Do not worry at the slightest. I have deliberately chosen my path, well knowing the
consequences, and have trained myself to it. Age creeps upon me but I am young enough still in mind and body
and hardened to most occurrences. It would distress me greatly if I felt that the odd things that happen to me
upset any plans that you may make for yourself. I cannot help you much in the making of these plans and
indeed this is not necessary. You are well enough I hope now and will be quite fit soon.
4. To a large extent, circumstances and world happenings control our lives today. You are tied up in Switzerland
and cannot easily get away. The barriers that confine me are much narrower. We shall put up with these
temporary impediments and mishaps without being affected by them too much. Anyway, my life is on the wane.
Yours is to come. Each generation has to solve its own problems. For a passing generation to impose itself on a
new one is bad. Yet we are always doing it, consciously sometimes, unconsciously most of the time. I have su
doubt that I do it. And yet I do not want to and I would like you to be in this. I have learnt from experience that I
am not wise enough to advise others. I find difficulty in deciding many questions for myself; how can I decide
for others, even though they are dear to me?
5. In the solitude of prison, I shall think of you a great deal. I shall sit here wrapped up in my thoughts and you will be
a constant companion bringing joy and solace to me. So I shall not be really lonely, and the years or months that I
pass here will perhaps bring peace to my mind. I shall make friends again with the stars and watch the moon wax
and wane, and see the pageant of the world, with all its beauty and horror, as an onlooker from a distant place or a
diffcrent world. I have worked hard during most of my life but I have worked as I wanted to, and life, in spite of
many hard knocks, has been gracious to me. I suppose I have hard work still to do. There are no ways to escape
from it. Butat present, I feel somewhat weary in mind. When I feel this way I seek refuge in poetry and the classics.
6. The safest address for you to write to me will continue to be Anand Bhawan, though I do not know what will
happen to Anand Bhawan in the months to come.
Your loving
Papa
(Jawaharlal Nehru). ans the following-
(b) What had Nehru learnt from his prison experience?
(c) How does Nehru describe the relation between the older and younger generations?
(d) Why was Nehru not much worried about his daughter?
(e) How did poetry and classics help Nehru in jail?​

Answer 1

Answer:

in all circumstances. a happy man remains