Question

the train, it was soon clear how important this was for those from the South and

Northeast. Every second passenger was a defence personnel, a majority of them

belonging to the oldest regiment of Indian Army, the Madras regiment, and the

Assam Rifles. The other half was made up of labourers from the east and further

east - the seven sisters of the Northeast. The former protects, the latter serves.

The third kind of passengers were those from the North and Northeast, forced to

come down thousands of kilometres for quality medical care. P. Gupta, the patriarch

of a family from Dimapur, Nagaland, had come to the CMC Hospital in Vellore,

where he underwent check-ups for his various ailments.

A2] Complete the following sentences by giving reasons. 02

1) The soldiers from the South were going back because ..........

2) The narrator was in minority because ..........

A3] Find words from the passage that mean : 02

1) Very common -

2) Small number of persons -

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Answer 1

Explanation:

1) a majority of them

belonging to the oldest regiment of Indian Army, the Madras regiment, and the