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SECTION IV : NON-TEXTUAL PASSAGES
(Reading Skills, Vocabulary, Grammar and Summary)
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Mathemation in India inevitably makes one think of one extraordinary figure of recent
times. This was Srivasa Ramanujan Bom in a poor Brahmin family in South India, having no
opportunities for a proper education, he became a clerk in the Madras Port Trust But he was
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bubbling over with some repressible quality of instinctive genius and played about with numbers
and equations in his spare time By a lucky chance he attracted the attention of a mathematician
who sent some of his amateur work to Cambridge in England People there were impressed and
a scholarship was arranged for him so he left his clerk's job and went to Cambridge and during
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a very brief period there did work of profound value and amazing originality. The Royal Society
of England went rather out of their way and made him a Fellow, but he died two years later,
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probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 33. Professor Julian Huxley has. I believe, referred to him
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somewhere as the greatest mathematician of the century,
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Ramanujan's briet life and death are symbolic of conditions in India of our millions how
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few got any education at af how many live on the verge of starvation of even those who get
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some educahon and have nothing to look forward to but a clerkship in some office on a pay that
is usually far less than the unemployment dole in England. If life opened its gates to them and
Mered them food and healthy conditions of living and education and opportunities of growth, how
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marry among these millions would be eminent scientists, educationists, technicians, industrialists
writers and artists, helping to build a new India and a new world?
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