India through the Eyes of a Foreigner
I.. Write down your answers.
1.Mark Tully thought he would be closely connected with
others in many activities in India.
Answer:True.
2.Mark was not able to make friends in India.
Answer:Not True.
3.“That, of course, is only part of the truth,” he says.
What is “part of the truth”?
Answer:The part of the truth is that the foreigner is staying in India because
of his friends. The part of the truth is he is drawn to India by its beauty.
4.He watched the sunset in two places. What was the
difference?
Answer:He saw the sunsets in Great Himalayan national park where the mountains
glittered in the sunset whereas in Kerala over the Arabian sea sunset looked as
the sun slid like a great red dome. The difference is one sunset was watched
over the Himalayan mountains, other was watched over the Arabian sea.
5.He says he liked the early summer smells of India. What
are they? Why do they evoke nostalgia in him?
Answer:The early summer smells are dry scents in Delhi as the blue jacarandas,
the scarlet Gulmohar, and other trees come into flower, the sweet smell of the
queen of the night and the freshness of first of pine trees in the foothills of
the Himalayas after a long, hot and dusty drive across the plains. There are
folk songs and classical music with ragas that start with such austerity and
end in ecstasy evokes nostalgia in him. They evoke nostalgia in him because he
is reminded of such beautiful sights back in England.
6.Why was the smell of pines particularly refreshing for
him?
Answer:The foreigner was undertaking a very long and dusty drive across the
plains and the smell of pines refreshed him very much.
7.The author tells us about his experiences in India,
about the things he saw, smelled and heard. Do you remember anything like that?
Try to imagine some memorable experience and tell it to your partner.
Answer:The student has to answer her/his own experiences.
8.Mark tells us about these things-the great works of our
literature, our folk are, ways of worship, our monuments, and the Indian food.
Give examples of these things in your own words.
Answer:The two great epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, and the poetry by great
poets.
Art — The art of the Pradhan tribe in Central India attracted him so much that
it occupies completely one wall of his flat.
Ways of worship – He describes how
1. Muslims stand in line after line bowing their heads in prayer.
2. The Hindu prior to performing the evening rites in a Hindu temple,
3. The sound of priests singing the Sikh scriptures in the Golden temple.
He was looking at our monuments. He was amazed by seeing
the great monuments like the Taj Mahal and forts of Rajasthan.
Indian food – The fresh cooked Parathas for breakfast in the open-air dhabas or
restaurants along the Grand Trunk Road and delicious vegetarian thali in
Gujarat.
About our moments he says nobody will be disappointed by the Taj Mahal or the forts of Rajasthan. About food, he says there are freshly cooked parathas for breakfast in the open-air dhabas or restaurants along the Grand trunk road and there’s the delicacy of a vegetarian thali in Gujarat.
9.Mark says he is perhaps the only foreigner who believes
India and Indians are very special.
Answer:Not True.
10.Why, do you think, we Indians accept Mark, a
foreigner, as one of us?
Answer:We Indians accept everybody whoever comes to India. India is a country
of unity in diversity. No other country has so many religions languages,
cultures, customs, etc. We have the quality of friendly nature which makes us
welcome anybody who comes here. In the same way, Mark was also accepted as one
of us.
II. Answer these questions using the present participle and say how it is used.
1.What is Peacock doing?
Answer:Peacock is dancing.
2.What was the bird doing?
Answer:The bird was flying in the sky.
3.What will you be doing this evening?
Answer:I’ll be going to the cinema.
4.What is mother cooking all morning?
Answer:Mother is cooking breakfast.
III. Respond to the given sentences using the present participle.
Example: Some birds don’t fly Some birds are not flying birds.
1.The peacock dances.
Answer:Some Peacocks are not dancing.
2.Is that book good?
Answer:Some books are not good for reading.
3.There are no buses today. How did you come?
Answer:I came riding a cycle
4.Why did you open the door?
Answer:I heard someone calling.
IV Working with your partner, supply the missing words in the passage below:
A long time a g o an old m a
n lived in London. His name was Benjamin Lewis Rice. One m o r
n i n g he went to a b o o
k Exhibition to see some books. He went o n t o a
stall and l o o k e d at some titles. Then
he went up to the guide in the s t a l l
greeted him, and introduced h i m s e l f.
After talking to the man pleasantly a b o u t
things in general he burst out:
“Ayya,’ Kannadadalli mathandonave? Muddada Kannada Kiviya mele biddu thumba
dinagaladavu.” (“Ayya, shall we speak in Kannada? It is many days since I heard
that sweet language!”)
Born in Bangalore in 1837, this scho l a r l y type of English M a n had also held high administrative positions in the old Mysore State in M y s o r e. He was Director of Public Instruction, Secretary for Education and the Mysore Archaeological Department’s first Director. What is more, he was a scholar. He had mastered K a n n a d a and translated into E n g l i s h almost 9000 inscriptions from Karnataka.
V Use these phrase and make a sentence :
1.made narrow in the middle / can run slowly / An
‘hourglass’ / from the top half to the bottom /like a figure 8/is a glass
container / taking just one hour / so that the sand inside.
Answer:An hourglass is a glass container made narrow in the middle, like a figure
8, so that the sand inside can run slowly from the top half to the bottom
taking just one hour.
2..used especially in former times / on a scaled dial /
which shows the time / is an apparatus / by the shadow of a rod / A sundial.
Answer:A sundial is an apparatus used especially in former times which shows
the time by the shadow of a rod on a scaled dial.
VI Answer these questions in ten sentences:-
1.In the words of Mark Tully why he has accepted as a
part of India?
Answer:According to Mark, Indian beauty of nature, great works of literature,
our folk art, way of worship, our monuments, and the Indian food etc, He says
it would need a be to describe What India means to him and – can only say that
he is not alone among foreigners in believing there is nowhere like. India and
being people like be how Mark was perhaps unusual for a foreigner in that he
has been accepted as a part of India. Marks was accepted by Indians and Indians
because he got himself involved in India and Indians.
2.How Mark Tully felt like a foreigner when he came to
India?
Answer:When he came to India he soon realized that it was not going to be
difficult to get involved in India from the first day itself he was surrounded
by friends. His predecessors introduced him to the staff of A India Radio,
members of the press club, new neighbours, still many continued as good
friends. That’s why he says when he was questioned about staying in India. He
said that’s because of his friends.
VII Multiple Choice Questions
1.Author saw sunset at two places ______ and ______.
a) Great Himalayas and Ooty.
b) Ooty and Kerala
c) Great Himalayas and Kerala
d) Ooty and Arabian sea.
Answer:c) Great Himalayas and Kerala
2.Author liked to stay in India, because.
a) of friends
b) Of India’s beauty
c) India’s culture
d) Indian food.
Answer:a) of friends
3.There is the dry scent of early summer is in
a) Delhi
b) Mumbai
c) Bangalore
d) Chennai.
Answer:a) Delhi
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