• List the words used in the text that are related to legal procedures.

For example: deposition

• List other words that you know that fall into this category.

“Freedom from fear is more important than legal justice for the poor.”

Do you think that the poor of India are free from fear after Independence?

The qualities of a good leader.

Notice the sentences in the text which are in ‘direct speech’.

Why does the author use quotations in his narration?

Notice the use or non-use of the comma in the following sentences.

(a) When I first visited Gandhi in 1942 at his ashram in Sevagram, he told me what happened in Champaran.

(b) He had not proceeded far when the police superintendent’s messenger overtook him.

(c) When the court reconvened, the judge said he would not deliver the judgment for several days.