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Gangadharpant had five volumes on his table. Volume one took the history up to the period of Ashoka, volume two up to Samudra- gupta, volume three up to Mohammad Ghori, and volume four up to the death of Aurangzeb. In volume five he could find required details about the Battle of Panipat.

Gangadharpant knew India which had seen the decline of Peshwas and experienced the slavery of the British. But the India he had seen in two days was completely different. It had not been subjected to slavery for the whiteman. It was self-dependent and enjoyed self-respect. He compared the two countries the one that he knew already and other that he was witnessing around him. Both had different histories.

Prof. Gaitonde wanted to browse through history books because he knew that was the surest way of finding out how the present state of affairs was reached.

This Bombay was under the British Raj. An Anglo-Indian in uniform checked permits. Each of the blue carriages of GBMR had the tiny Union jack painted on it. The Victoria Terminus station looked very neat and clean. The staff was mostly of Anglo-Indians and Parsee alongwith a handful of british officers.

Prof. Gaitonde saw that the lecture at the pandal was in progress. But the chair for President on the stage was empty. He directly went to the stage and occupied the chair. The audience started shouting to him ‘to vacate the chair’.

According to Prof. Gaitonde, Catastrophic situations offer radically different alternatives for the world to proceed. So far as reality is concerned all alternatives are viable but the observer can experience only one of them at a time.

Gangadharpant had the experience of speaking at 999 meetings, but he found the one at Pune where the audience was at its most hostile. The audience showered tomatoes, eggs and other objects on him. Still he kept on hying bravely to correct his sacrilege. Finally the audience rushed to the stage to eject him boldly and thenafter he was nowhere to be seen.

To support the statement ‘Reality may not be unique’, the following example of the functioning of atoms and their constituent particles is given. If an electron is fired from a source, it will never go in the expected direction and reach the set target as it happens in the case of a bullet shot from a gun. It will go in the given direction at a given speed.

According to Rajendra Deshpande, Prof. Gaitonde needed some interaction to cause a transition. Perhaps, at the time of collision, i.e., Professor’s car with a truck-he was thinking about the catastrophe theory and its role in wars. Might be he was wondering about the Battle of Panipat. Perhaps, the neurons in his brain acted as a trigger and he might have slipped into transition.

1. C. ‘make clear by special emphasis’.

2. B. ‘unknowingly’.

3. C. Vishwasrao was killed in a bullet-shot.

4. C. his own copy of Bakhar

1. C. Peshawar

2. B. British Rule

3. C. Britishers

4. A. Majestic

This statement was said by Rajendra to Professor Gaitonde. He made a transition from one world to another and back again. By making a transition, he was able to experience two worlds although one at a time. He neither travelled to the past nor to the future. He was in the present but experiencing a different world.

(1) False
(2) True
(3) False
(4) False
(5) True