Bangalore University 2007 P.U.C English Pre-University ch/il, - Question Paper

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23. What ideas of Kie-Ho does Sophia Skoufaki contradict in her essay “Is Creativity Supressed by Knowledge?

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define the ways in which the woman rebels and asserts herself in the poem “I am not That Woman”.

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Baba Amte wants to be remembered as a man whose deeds followed his words. Share your thoughts on the human face of Baba Amte obtained in “Work Builds Charity Destroys”

IV. learn the subsequent passage and ans the ques. set on it: 10x1=10

It has become a cliche, even a politically accurate cliche these days, to say that there are 2 Indias: the India that shines with its fancy apartments and houses in rich neighborhoods, corporate houses of breathtaking size, glittering shopping malls, and high-tech flyovers over which flows a procession of new model cars. There are the images from a globalized India on the verge of entering the 1st world. And then there is the other India. India of helpless peasants committing suicides, dalits lynched regularly in not-so-distant villages, tribals dispossessed of their forest land and livelihood, and children too small tow lk properly, yet begging on the streets of shining cities. Something talks in the air. The anger of the poor from this other India is understandable. The India if flitter and privlege, it seems is bent on turning its back, and secluding fast from the other India of despair, anger and inhuman poverty. This is not just a matter of growing relative inequality ranging from the 2 Indias. A more brutal procession at work, with the connivance of governments at the central and at the state level which is not only widening this divide ranging from the 2 India, it is deepening consciously the absolute poverty and misery of poor India.

The unprecedented high economic growth on which privileged India prides itself is a measure of the high speed at which India of privilege is distancing itself from the India of crushing poverty. The higher the rate of economic growth along this trend becomes, the greater would be the underdevelopment of India.

Globalization is the situation in which growth is taking place. The accompanying processes of economic liberalization and privatization are tilting the balance in favour of the market against the nation state.

However, the game is no longer what it used to be. Nineteenth century capitalism developed through a complex process of conflict and co-operation ranging from the state and the market. The state furthered the interest of the market, but at times also regulated it. For instance, it regulated the hours of work, abolished child labour or legalized trade unionism. Kari Polyani, the perceptive commentator on the nineteenth century capitalism defined this as a process of “great transformation” driven by the “double movement” of the market and the state. If the state fails to play a constructive role, the outcome is not a freer market and more freedom, but growing desperate anger to the poor, which must engulf all sooner or later.

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