Short Answer Type Questions (30-40) Words
Q.1 What did saheb's mother say about leaving their home in Dhaka and coming to Seemapuri ?
Ans. Sahib's mother had told him that their homes used to be in the Green Fields of Dhaka. Many storms used to came there. They swept away their fields and homes. So, they left their country and came to the big city, looking for livelihood.
Q.2 How does the author describe the area of Seemapuri ?
Ans. The authoress visits Seemapuri. She finds it a settlement of 10,000 ragpickers who are migrated from Bangladesh in 1971. They live in the structures of mud. They have roofs of tin and tarpaulin. There is no sewage, drainage or running water.
Q.3 How did Saheb feel working at a tea stall ?
Ans. Saheb got a job in a tea stall but he did not feel happy there. 800 Rupees and meals were paid to him by the tea stall owner. He had lost his carefree look. He felt that he was no longer his own master. He is just a servant.
Q.4 Who was Mukesh? What was his aim in life?
Ans. Mukesh was a young boy who belonged to a family of bangle makers in Firozabad. He did not like the life of bangle maker because he had seen the poverty and misery of his life. His dream was to become a motor-mechanic.
Q.5 What kind of locality does Mukesh live?
Ans. He lives in a dirty locality. He becomes usual of strinking lanes. The streets are choked with garbage. Their homes seems caves. Their walls are crumbling. Windows are not there. They have woobly doors. Animals live with them also.
Q.6 How is Mukesh's attitude to his situation different from the other bangle makers of Firozabad?
Ans. Mukesh belongs to a poor family of bangle makers. His locality's people are also engaged in this work. They think that it is a god given lineage
but mukesh has the dare to challenge his fate. He wants to become his own master. His aim is to become a motor-mechanic.
Long Answer Type Questions (125-130 Words)
Q. 1. What does the writer want Saheb to do ? Why she has to feel embarrassed about it later?
Ans. Saheb is a poor ragpicker. The writer sees him every morning picking coins from the garbage heaps in her neighbourhood. She asks Saheb why he doesn’t go to school. Saheb replied that there was no school in his neighbourhood. When they build one I will go.
The writer says half-jokingly, “If I Start a school Will you come
“Yes,” says Saheb, smiling broadly.
A few days later, Saheb sees the writer. He comes to her, and asks, "Is your school ready". The writer feels embarrassed. She did not mean the promise which was made by her to Saheb. Now she could only say, "It takes longer to build a school".
But she knew that these kind of promises are often made with the poor but they are never fulfilled.
Q.2. Describe the circumstances which keep the workers in the bangles industry in poverty.
Ans. Poverty is like a well which has no surface in which one can only fall deeper and deeper, and it is very much similar to the situation of workers in the Firozabad's bangle industry. Their abject poverty drives them deeper and deeper into the mire of misery from which they have no hope of ever being able to come out. If they try to raise their voice against the injustice, the police haul them up and beat them mercilessly. They have nothing left but to do something illegal and then they are put into jail. Thus, these poor people find no hope from anywhere and have to remain in the same state of poverty and misery from generation to generation. All their life and labour goes into keeping body and soul together.
Q.3 ‘Lost Spring’ explains the grinding poverty and traditions that condemn thousands of people to live a life of abject poverty. Do you agree ? Why / Why not ?
Ans. ‘Lost Spring’ describes the miserable condition of poor children who have to live in slums and work hard in very dirty conditions. They never go to school because their parents are too poor to pay for their education. In order to describe in brief, the writer first takes up the case of poor ragpickers who have settled in the Seemapuri area of Delhi. It is a slum area where about 10,000 ragpickers live in structures of mud. They have roofs of tin and tarpaulin. There is no sewage, drainage or running water. Those who live here came from Bangladesh in 1971. For them, ragpicking means survival. Garbage is gold to them. It is their daily bread.
Then the writer takes up the case of the poor bangle makers who have been living for generations in the dirty town of Firozabad. These people have been exploited by all sections of society. Every Other family here is engaged in making bangles. Families here have been working around glass furnaces for generations. They have to work in high temperatures. They have to work in dingy cells without air and light. About 20,000 children have to work in dark places all day long. Their eyes get more adjusted to the dark than to the light. Many of them lose their eyesight even before they become adults. The poor bangle makers lead a miserable life. They are exploited by middlemen, policemen, moneylenders, bureaucrats and politicians.
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Q.1 What did saheb's mother say about leaving their home in Dhaka and coming to Seemapuri ?
Ans. Sahib's mother had told him that their homes used to be in the Green Fields of Dhaka. Many storms used to came there. They swept away their fields and homes. So, they left their country and came to the big city, looking for livelihood.
Q.2 How does the author describe the area of Seemapuri ?
Ans. The authoress visits Seemapuri. She finds it a settlement of 10,000 ragpickers who are migrated from Bangladesh in 1971. They live in the structures of mud. They have roofs of tin and tarpaulin. There is no sewage, drainage or running water.
Q.3 How did Saheb feel working at a tea stall ?
Ans. Saheb got a job in a tea stall but he did not feel happy there. 800 Rupees and meals were paid to him by the tea stall owner. He had lost his carefree look. He felt that he was no longer his own master. He is just a servant.
Q.4 Who was Mukesh? What was his aim in life?
Ans. Mukesh was a young boy who belonged to a family of bangle makers in Firozabad. He did not like the life of bangle maker because he had seen the poverty and misery of his life. His dream was to become a motor-mechanic.
Q.5 What kind of locality does Mukesh live?
Ans. He lives in a dirty locality. He becomes usual of strinking lanes. The streets are choked with garbage. Their homes seems caves. Their walls are crumbling. Windows are not there. They have woobly doors. Animals live with them also.
Q.6 How is Mukesh's attitude to his situation different from the other bangle makers of Firozabad?
Ans. Mukesh belongs to a poor family of bangle makers. His locality's people are also engaged in this work. They think that it is a god given lineage
but mukesh has the dare to challenge his fate. He wants to become his own master. His aim is to become a motor-mechanic.
Long Answer Type Questions (125-130 Words)
Q. 1. What does the writer want Saheb to do ? Why she has to feel embarrassed about it later?
Ans. Saheb is a poor ragpicker. The writer sees him every morning picking coins from the garbage heaps in her neighbourhood. She asks Saheb why he doesn’t go to school. Saheb replied that there was no school in his neighbourhood. When they build one I will go.
The writer says half-jokingly, “If I Start a school Will you come
“Yes,” says Saheb, smiling broadly.
A few days later, Saheb sees the writer. He comes to her, and asks, "Is your school ready". The writer feels embarrassed. She did not mean the promise which was made by her to Saheb. Now she could only say, "It takes longer to build a school".
But she knew that these kind of promises are often made with the poor but they are never fulfilled.
Q.2. Describe the circumstances which keep the workers in the bangles industry in poverty.
Ans. Poverty is like a well which has no surface in which one can only fall deeper and deeper, and it is very much similar to the situation of workers in the Firozabad's bangle industry. Their abject poverty drives them deeper and deeper into the mire of misery from which they have no hope of ever being able to come out. If they try to raise their voice against the injustice, the police haul them up and beat them mercilessly. They have nothing left but to do something illegal and then they are put into jail. Thus, these poor people find no hope from anywhere and have to remain in the same state of poverty and misery from generation to generation. All their life and labour goes into keeping body and soul together.
Q.3 ‘Lost Spring’ explains the grinding poverty and traditions that condemn thousands of people to live a life of abject poverty. Do you agree ? Why / Why not ?
Ans. ‘Lost Spring’ describes the miserable condition of poor children who have to live in slums and work hard in very dirty conditions. They never go to school because their parents are too poor to pay for their education. In order to describe in brief, the writer first takes up the case of poor ragpickers who have settled in the Seemapuri area of Delhi. It is a slum area where about 10,000 ragpickers live in structures of mud. They have roofs of tin and tarpaulin. There is no sewage, drainage or running water. Those who live here came from Bangladesh in 1971. For them, ragpicking means survival. Garbage is gold to them. It is their daily bread.
Then the writer takes up the case of the poor bangle makers who have been living for generations in the dirty town of Firozabad. These people have been exploited by all sections of society. Every Other family here is engaged in making bangles. Families here have been working around glass furnaces for generations. They have to work in high temperatures. They have to work in dingy cells without air and light. About 20,000 children have to work in dark places all day long. Their eyes get more adjusted to the dark than to the light. Many of them lose their eyesight even before they become adults. The poor bangle makers lead a miserable life. They are exploited by middlemen, policemen, moneylenders, bureaucrats and politicians.
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