Question

We stood silent, each thinking our own thoughts. Yes, they told you all that. But
there is so much they didn’t tell you. They didn’t tell you that to change animal
skins to leather - which they call tunning - uses as many as 250 different
chemicals, including heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic and chromium. They
didn’t tell you that these chemicals are discharged into the environment from those
chimney stacks and fall to earth for miles around, polluting the earth below. They
didn’t tell you that this would poison your fields, so that nothing will grow. “They
didn’t tell you that this would poison your fields, so that nothing will grow “They
didn’t tell us that chemical would be dumped in open fields and into our rivers,
“sighed Vijayasama. We had been thinking the same thoughts. “They didn’t tell us
that our women would have to walk 10 m every day. They didn’t tell us that we
would get ulcers and sores on our bodies. They didn’t tell us ......? Her voice trailed
off. There is so much they didn’t tell you, I thought.
“We don’t buy leather shoes or leather handbags or leather clothes,” she said.

1. But there is so much they didn’t tell you. What is that they didn’t tell ?
2. Why do you think that the people of the village don’t buy leather goods ?
3. ‘They didn’t tell us........ her voice trailed off’, What do you mean by this expressio

Answer 1

1. They didn't tell because we are not taking about anything.
2. they have 250 different type of leather goods so people of their village did not buy.
3. expression means the way they use to talk and their body and facial movement.