Answers to RSPL/2
1. 1. 1 (a) Gandhiji earned the degree of Barrister-at-Law in London.
(b) Gandhiji was asked to vacate his seat for a white man while travelling in a
train and when he refused he was thrown out of the train. Thus Gandhiji was
subjected to untold shame.
(c) The objective of ‘The Natal Indian Congress’, was to carry on the struggle of
the Indians against racial discrimination.
(d) The purpose of starting a newspaper called ‘The Indian Opinion’, was to
propagate the information about the struggle against racial indiscrimination.
(e) The concept of Satyagraha (satya means truth and agraha means firmness). It
was the use of ‘Soul-Force’ against ‘Brute-Force’ or violence.
(f) Gandhiji struggled for more than two decades in South Africa.
(g) The way of life that he practised in the Ashram was known as ‘Sarvodaya’ the
well-being of all.
(h) Mahatma means ‘The Great Soul’ and Gandhiji was known as Mahatma as
he practised the teachings with truth, love and non-violence.
2. 2.1. (a) Ratan Tata revolutionized the company by focusing on high-tech products.
He increased the international profile of the company by buying recognized
brands.
(b) Ratan Tata joined the Tata Group in December 1962, he started his career
from Tata Steel in Jamshedpur. He worked on the floor along with other
blue-collar employees, shoveling limestone and handling the blast furnaces.
(c) Ratan was appointed the Director-in-Charge of Nalco, a company that was in
dire financial difficulty. He suggested that high investments should be made
in developing high technological products, and in 3 years he turned the fate
of NALCO.
(d) Tata Motors bought the luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover. He further
stunned the world by creating the Tata Nano – a car selling for less than
$2,500. Thus he turned the tables for Tata Motors.
2.2. (a) (ii) company(b) (i) lead (c) (i) simple (d) (iii) amazed
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3. AC/104
Grey Apartments
New Delhi 1100XX
10 October 20XX
The Editor
The Indian Express
New Delhi
Sir
Subject : Increasing rate of crime in Delhi
Through the columns of your esteemed daily I would like to ventilate my grave concern
on the scenario of increasing rate of crime in Delhi and the lack of safety of the citizens,
especially the women. Despite round-the-clock vigil on the road, miscreants and terrorists
cannot be checked. Kidnapping, rape, women trafficking and outraging the modesty of
woman is a regular phenomenon. There are hardly any laws or public protests to control
this grievous situation. Hence, rate of crime is increasing day by day.
Under the above circumstances, I would therefore expect government intervention to
control the situation, and stringent laws to be enforced in order to curb the increasing
rate of crime.
Yours faithfully
Singdha
Or
Drug Addiction among the youth
By ABC
Today, drug addiction is prevalent almost everywhere among the youth. Among the educated
youth it is very common. They are found puffed up with drug addiction. According to
a recent survey, 40 per cent of the Indian youth are drug addicts. They hardly think of
its bad effects. Their motto is to enjoy and die—‘They drink life to the lees’. Basically,
they take heroin and marijuana. They forget their home and become hardcore druggists.
Drug addiction is a social stigma and a curse to the youth. Parents should encourage
them not to take drugs. The teachers and social workers should imbibe in them not to
take drugs. Laws should be enforced to stop drug addiction among the youth.
4. Navin Kishore was a clerk in a private firm. He had a small house near Delhi. His
income was so poor that he had to live from hand to mouth. He was the father of six
children. Suddenly he died of a heart attack. Krishna was the eldest in the family. After
his father’s death, the family was suffering from acute financial crisis. Krishna was then
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only eighteen years old. He had just appeared in senior secondary exam. However, he
tried his best to find a job. But everywhere he found no vacancy. He was very much
disappointed. He had five younger sisters and sick mother—all were dependent on him.
Krishna was a great devotee of Lord Ganesha. He would pray to him every morning and
evening. One day he met an old classmate on the way. He gave him an idea of selling
milk and milk products. The idea struck him. He borrowed money from the bank and
started milk product business. His sisters helped him in business, and he started growing
financially sound day by day.
Or
Rasulpur is a poor village in Pilibhit district, Uttar Pradesh. Many young girls and boys
come to Delhi in search of job in private firms. Vijaya, a poor girl from Rasulpur, also
came to Delhi in search of a job. Her father was handicapped and she had one younger
brother. So she needed a job very badly. She just passed 10th class.
Vijaya was hunting for job for days together, but fortune did not favour her. One day
she met one 35-year-old Vijayan, a supervisor at a garment factory. He promised her a
decent job of a receptionist. Vijaya’s joy knew no bounds. She thought she would get
good salary. She joined the factory as a receptionist. Vijayan took the opportunity to
exploit her. Very often he tempted her to go to the restaurant with him. She refused
to go with him. So, Vijayan threatened her with dire consequences. One day, he even
outraged her modesty. She filed a complaint with the police. Vijayan was arrested and
expelled from the job. Vijaya’s job was secured and she became happy.
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7. (a) I learnt to play piano from Mr Mudgila.
(b) I realized that vocal training is much better than instrumental.
(c) However, he taught me right from the basics but I fell ill and lost touch.
8. (a) ‘We’ here refers to the sailors.
(b) They were sad because they were stranded at sea.
(c) They believed that the cause of their misery was killing of albatross.
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Or
(a) Caesar uttered these words when he saw his most trusted friend stabbing him.
(b) Caesar fell down profusely bleeding from the wounds of stabs.
(c) Caesar conveys his shock and surprise and his sadness on breach of trust by his
friend.
9. (a) Helen organized with other ghosts, ‘The Writer’s Inspiration Bureau’, in order to
help those writers who had no idea and were with soft minds to accept impression,
because she and others like her who could not judge things rationally would feel
satisfied.
(b) We know that PatolBabu was a meticulous man because he paid complete attention
to minute details. He was thorough in his approach and spoke the one word ‘Oh’,
in different ways. In a whisper, loud voice, high pitch, etc.
(c) The poet Shelly emphasises on one main point that time spares none. All power,
authority and glory is brought down to dust with the passage of time. Nothing is
left of Ozymandias—the King of Kings. His face lies broken and half sunk in the
sand.
(d) The line ‘the bloody sun, at noon’ indicates the fury and heat of the sun at noon.
It looks red like the colour of blood. At noon, the sun came up above the mast
and it does not appear as big as in the morning or evening and was smaller than
the moon.
(e) Mark Antony logically and rightly calls Julius Caesar ‘the choice and master spirits
of this age’ because Caesar was the greatest, most powerful, noblest and popular
person in this world. He was not a man but the master spirits of his age.
10. The poet displays various emotions at different times. He shows fascination at the
presence of the snake at his water trough. He displays patience when he waits for the
snake to come to the trough and at the same time his voices of education tell him that
this yellow brown snake could be poisonous and therefore must be killed. He afraid of
it yet he was also hospitable towards the snake since it had come to his water trough,
but when the snake prepares to go back into the blackness the poet feels angered and
in a fit of rage throws a log of wood at the snake. He immediately regrets his actions
and calls it vulgar and mean act. He, therefore, starts hating himself.
Or
Antony was a great orator and was able to arouse natural passion of people. He narrated
the glories, conquests and trophies that Caesar had brought to Rome. He highlighted the
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ransoms, tributes received by Rome and Caesar’s tears for the poor and their cause. He
even read out his will where he left his private gardens and parks for the use of common
people. He said that Caesar was not ambitious as he turned down the crown offered to
him thrice. He conclusively proved that Brutus and others were liars and murderers and
was successful in arousing the crowd’s sympathy for Caesar, while Brutus’s cold logic
didn’t cut much ice with the mass.
11. On the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, Helen’s parents contacted the Perkin’s Institute
for Blind for her education. It was the same institute where Laura Bridgman, a deaf and
blind child had been educated. The Director of the Institute, Mr. Michael Anagnos asked
a former student, Anne Sullivan to be Helen’s instructor. The instructor was herself a
visually impaired person. Helen mingled with the little blind children very easily. She
communicated with them in her own language. This was a new world to Helen. All the
loving children joined her heartily in her fun and frolics. Helen forgot her sense of pain
in the pleasure of their companionship because she felt very much at home in her new
environment. She was determined to speak and Miss Fuller taught her and the first
sentence she spoke was ‘It is warm’.
Or
Books always fascinated Helen Keller but they were not the only pleasure for her. From
her childhood, she had a special feeling for the country and loved outdoor sports. She
learnt to row and swim at a very young age. She loved to contend with wind and waves.
On moonlit nights she enjoyed canoeing, and sailing was her favourite amusement. She
always felt that blindness and deafness cannot rob the subconscious memory of a man
and thus cannot touch the inherited capacity of the sixth sense. She felt that there is a
soul that sees, hears, and feels all in one. Though her eyes and ears were impaired yet
all her sensations that she reached were through her whole body. She loved to spin on
her bicycle and her favourite companions were her dogs. Her dog friends understood
her limitations and always used to keep close to her when she was alone. She also liked
to knot and crochet. Inspite of her being differently abled she always tried to make the
light in others’ eyes, the music in others’ ears, her symphony and smile on others lips.
Or
In 1940s, it was a very tiring and dangerous time for the Jews in Europe, Germany and
Holland. Hitler and the Nazis openly waged war against the helpless Jews. Germany
invaded Holland in 1940 and they started hunting for Jews in Holland too. Anne Frank
at that time was a young girl of 13 years. She did not understand why the Jews were
discriminated and singled out for persecution. She observed that the laws did not grant
freedom to the Jews. The Jews were not allowed to use the street cars and in order to
show their identities, they were required to wear yellow stars. Their children were denied
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admission in Christian schools and Anne like other Jewish people had to attend special
schools for them. When Margot got a call of notice from the Nazis, they were all sure
that it meant invitation to concentration camps and ultimate death. They found shelter
in the office of Otto Frank and were also thankful to the Dutch authorities for all help
and assistance. Anne though worried about her friends being taken to the concentration
camps believed that god would show his mercy on Jews and that the war would end and
a new dawn of freedom would commence for the Jews.
Or
Hanneli was a Jewish girl, classmate and friend of Anne Frank. Anne’s best friends were
Sanne and Hanneli. Hanneli was called at school as ‘Goslar or Lies’, and she was a very
shy girl. She was very reserved with other people though she was outspoken at home.
During the Holocaust Anne’s father took shelter with his family in Amsterdam and
Anne used to think and dream of Hanneli and grandma very often. She even thought
whether Hanneli was alive or not and if so what would she be doing. She prayed to God
to watch over her and bring her back to them. She was always scared and sad whenever
she thought of Hanneli’s fate. Anne always thought of the sufferings of Hanneli and
thousands of others like her. She felt that she was selfish and coward because she was
unable to do anything for them. All she could do is only pray to God and cry for them.
Hanneli thus, symbolized to her the sufferings of her friend and all her Jewish friends.
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