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The cultural heritage of India lies in its recognition of sustaining an inner landscape of man which is the centre and the recognition that it expresses itself in an outer landscape of man comprising myriad petals of a lotus flower. Whenever, however, the 34 vision may have come, it is clear that had this not been the guiding star of this country it would not have been possible for it to have a staggering multiplicity of racist strands, languages, religions, philosophic systems, social structures and artistic expressions, all webbed together in one wholeness. The proverbial staggering multiplicity is held together as planets in a single astronomical orbit. Staged differently all manifestations in time and space, varied and different are the rainbow colours of a single white luminosity. Whoever came to this country fell into this pattern.(a) (i) In what does the cultural heritage of India lie? (ii) What has been webbed into one? (iii) How has Indian heritage been mixed with different colours? (iv) Who ever came to this country fell into this pattern? Explain this statement. (v) Give a suitable title of the passage.(b) Give the meaning of the above underlined words and use them in sentences of your own. |
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Answer» (a) (i) The cultural heritage of India lies in the recognition of the inner landscape of man as its centre along with his outer landscape. (ii) In India all the racist strands, languages, religions, philosophy and artistic expressions have webbed into one whole ness. (iii) The Indian heritage has different colours but all are mixed like the colours of a rainbow. (iv) Whatever races and people came to India they all merged themselves as one and became Indians. (v) “The Cultural Heritage of India” is a suitable title of the passage. (b) (i) heritage – that which is inherited. The Taj Mahal is a part of our national heritage. (ii) Landscape – the portion of land with its environs which they can view at a single glance. Woods and fields are the special features of the English landscape. (iii) Myriad – an extremely large number of something Designs are available in a myriad of colours. (iv) Multiplicity – a great number and variety of something This situation can be influenced by a multiplicity of different factors. (v) Orbit – The path in which the heavenly bodies move. A new satellite has been put into orbit around the earth.. (vi) Pattern – the regular way in which something happens or is done. These paintings seem to follow a pattern. |
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