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When Siddhartha was sitting in his garden, a wounded swan fell into his lap. He pulled the arrow out and washed the wound. The hunter then came and demanded prey. Siddhartha having saved it, refused to give it. Both went to the king for judgement. Write a dialogue in about 80 words.

Siddhartha, wondering at the wounded swan, pulled out the arrow and washed the wound. Immediately, he saw a hunter coming towards him. The hunter started demanding for his prey.


Hunter: Hey! It’s my swan. I killed it with this very arrow that plucked out of that beast. Give it, quick.


Siddhartha: You want it? Why? To further kill it with more pain and numb its very liberality? You don’t preserve independence of beings. You only know to crush innocence and innocent beings. You should never own anything.


Hunter: By the very law of nature, we all live and believe in the survival of the fittest. So what if I have killed a weak element of nature? It has been designed to be butchered by a subject higher to it. Now, give back my prey.


Siddhartha: This very law of nature also renders you to be subjected to the judgement of the King, who is superior to both of us in power and positon. Let him decide who is going to keep this innocent victim of the natural law.


At the king’ s court:


Siddhartha: My lord, the victim should be kept in the hands of one who shall help it to heal itself from the wounds of the world. I believe, I should be given with this responsibility.


Hunter: No! No! The man who kills his prey, eats his prey. My king, tell him to give back my food. Besides, nature conforms to the law of survival of the fittest and the prerogative of the powerful over the weaklings. And I have own over this weak bird.


King: So, by this very law of monopoly of resources by the powerful classes, I believe it’s me who should actually own this swan. I, being the King, holds the power to snatch away this feeble being from both of you. Ha! Ha!


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•What is ragging? Verbal, mental, physical, abuse; use of force; financial extortion, wrongful restraint, undermining human dignity etc.


•Leading to depression, low esteem, even suicide.


•Punishments: expulsions, debarring from examination, scholarships, prosecution for criminal action.

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A fire broke out in the J.J Colony of Vikaspuri in the dead of night rendering a number of people without any shelter. Scouts and Guides of your school provided material help and service to the victims. Write a report in about 80 words to be sent to the headquarters of your organization. You are group leader of Vikas Sr. Sec. School, Rohini, Delhi.

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Read then passage given below. Fill in the blanks by choosing the most appropriate word/ words from the given options.

In England Gandhiji at first (a) (i) did not give his time entirely to his studies. He tried to (b) (i) copy fashionable gentlemen in every way. He (c) (ii) was attracted by what was new and foreign. He (d) (i) has wasted a lot of money on buying smart English clothes. After three months he suddenly realized (e) (iii) his mistake and began to devote all his time to serious study. From the very childhood whenever Gandhiji found out that he (f) (i) was doing a wrong thing, he at once stopped doing it.

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Given below are the notes taken by a reporter regarding a carpet of flowers prepared by a group of children creating a world record. Study the given notes and complete the following paragraph by filling in the spaces from the given options.

•Prepared the world’s largest floral carpet with 12.5 tonnes of flowers


•150 children made 14,400 square foot carpet in 3 hours


•NGO, “Goonj” supported the children


•Would donate money received from the sale to the NGO


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