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The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?

“the polished traffic passed with a mind ahead

Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts”


These lines bring out the sentences mentioned in the question. The complaint was about the wrongly indicated north-south signs.


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Have you ever stopped at a roadside stand? What have you observed there?

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What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?

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The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people but actually, do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards ?

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What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers? Why is it in ‘vain’?