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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.
Q. What change occurs in Saheb’s life?
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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.
Q. What did he carry earlier in his hand?
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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.
Q. How much is he paid for a month?
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This morning, Saheb is on his way to the milk booth. In his hand is a steel canister. ‘I now work in a tea stall down the road,’ he says, pointing in the distance.
Q. How does Saheb feel?
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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.
Q. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?
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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.
Q. What game was ‘he’ watching?
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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.
Q. Whose shoes did he get?
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For one who has walked barefoot, even shoes with a hole is a dream come true. But the game he is watching so intently is out of his reach.
Q. Why playing that game is out of his reach?
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It has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more.
Q. What is ‘it’ in the above lines?
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It has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more.
Q. How is garbage ‘gold for them’?
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It has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more.
Q. Who are ‘them’ here?
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It has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more.
Q. Garbage has a different meaning for the rag–picker, for the children garbage is ________?
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‘If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.
Q. Who are ‘we’ in the above lines?
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‘If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.
Q. Why are they not willing to go back to their homeland?
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‘If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.
Q. From where have they come?
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‘If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,’ say a group of women in tattered saris when I asked them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers.
Q. Which word in the passage means ‘old and torn’?
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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.
Q. Who is ‘I’ in the above extract?
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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.
Q. What explanation is given for people staying barefoot?
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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.
Q. What has ‘I’ often seen?
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Travelling across the country I have seen children walking barefoot, in cities, on village roads. It is not lack of money, but a tradition to stay barefoot, is one explanation. I wonder if this is only an excuse to explain away a perpetual state of poverty.
Q. What is the author ’s view for people staying barefoot?