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 1. What kind of effect does Asokamitran’s style of writing have on the reader? Answer : Asokamitran's style of writing is satirical and informal, with humour interspersed amongst the text. This allows the reader to feel at ease, and helps in identifying the common human traits and flaws in the various people working in Gemini studios. 2. Discuss the significance of the make-up room in the chapter, ‘Poets and Pancakes’. Answer : The maleup room of the Gemini studio is the central crux of the story. It is the setting which takes us towards the superficiality of the people in life and of the people at the studio. It also showed us an intermingling of people from different cultures, and how a stricht hierarchical structure is maintained. Finally, it shows us that the film industry places heavy importance on looks and vanit on screen, and not in person, as understood when Asokamitran comments on how the makeup looks hideous in person, but good on the screen. 3. ‘In all instances o...

   I.  Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract A.  “I will learn to drive a car,” he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. It is the centre of India’s glass-blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, wielding glass, making bangles for all the women in the land it seems. Mukesh’s family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those 20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often losing the brightness of their eyes. Mukesh’s eyes beam as he volunteers to take me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt. (i) The simile ‘dream looms lik...

 I.  Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract A.  Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting there in the back of the room. It was because they were sorry, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful service and of showing their respect for the country that was theirs no more. (i) Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as ‘Poor man!’? a) He empathizes with M. Hamel as he had to leave the village. b) He believes that M. Hamel’s “fine Sunday clothes” clearly reflected that he was not rich. c) He feels sorry for M. Hamel as it was his last French lesson. d) He thinks that M. Hamel’s patriotism and sense of duty resulted in his poverty. Answer : c) He feels sorry for M. Hamel as it was his last French lesson. (ii) Which of the following idioms might describe the villagers’ act o...

 Import, Export and The Global Supply Chain INTRODUCTION The past few decades have seen important shifts that have reshaped the global trade landscape. As a share of global output, trade is now at almost three times the level in the early 1950s, in large part driven by the integration of rapidly growing emerging market economies (EMEs). The expansion in trade is mostly accounted for by growth in non-commodity exports, especially of high-technology products such as computers and electronics. It is also characterized by three important trends: the rise of EMEs as systemically important trading partners; the growing role of global supply chains; and an ongoing shift of technology content toward dynamic EMEs. These developments in global trade have been associated with increased trade interconnectedness and carry important implications for trade patterns, in particular in response to relative price changes. The aim of this paper is to outline the factors underlying these changes and an...