Indian Institue of Management 2000 M.B.A CAT - Question Paper

(3) she will fight for subsistence allowance from the County Board for the poor among the bereaved.
(4) grief processing needs tools certified by universities and medical centres.


32. Which 1 of the subsequent parallels ranging from the plow and bereavement counselling is not claimed by the author?
(1) Both are innovative technologies.
(2) Both outcome in migration of the communities into which the innovations are introduced.
(3) Both lead to 'deserts' in the space of only 1 generation.
(4) Both are tools introduced by outsiders entering existing communities.




PASSAGE V
The teaching and transmission of North Indian classical music is, and long has been, achieved by largely oral means. The raga and its
structure, the often breathtaking intricacies of tala or rhythm, and the incarnation of raga and tala as bandish or composition, are
passed thus, ranging from guru and shishya by word of mouth and direct demonstration, with no printed sheet of notated music, as it
were, acting as a go-between. Saussure's conception of language as a communication ranging from addresser and addressee is given, in
this model, a further instance, and a new exotic complexity and glamour.
These days, especially with the middle class having entered the domain of classical music and playing not a small part in ensuring the
continuation of this ancient tradition, the tape recorder serves as a handy technological slave and preserves, from oblivion, the
vanishing, elusive moment of oral transmission. Hoary gurus, too, have seen the advantage of this device, and increasingly use it as
an aid to instructing their pupils; in place of the shawls and other traditional objects that used to pass from shishya to guru in the
past, as a token of the regard of the former for the latter, it is not unusual, today, to see cassettes changing hands.
Part of my education in North Indian classical music was conducted via this rather ugly but beneficial rectangle of plastic, which I
carried with me to England when I was an undergraduate. 1 cassette had stored in it different talas played upon the tabla, at
different tempos, by my music teacher's brother-in-law, Hazarilalji, who was a teacher of Kathak dance, as well as a singer and a tabla
player. This was a work of great patience and prescience, a one-and-a-half hour performance without any immediate point or
purpose, but intended for a few delayed future moment when I'd practise the talas solitarily.

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