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Describing him as an “exemplary activist who not just criticises but shows alternatives,” noted historian and author, Ramachandra Guha, finds his personality, simplicity and life appealing. Sunita Narain, Director-General of Centre for Science and Environment, refers to his movement concerning people and trees key to development and one that shook the soul of India. Historian Anupam Mishra, attributes to him the genesis of an idea which transcended barriers of language and boundaries. All these encomiums are directed towards Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the activist who started an environment movement of, by and for the people. Bringing Bhatt and his yeoman contribution to the environment movement to the centrestage is this year’s winner of 63rd National Award in the Best Environment Film including Agriculture in the non- feature category “The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains”. Directed by Ruchi Shrivastava and Sumit Khanna, it zeroes on one of the pioneers of the Chipko Movement w...

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. The painter is now free to paint anything he chooses. There are scarcely any forbidden subjects, and today everybody is prepared to admit that a painting of some fruit can be as important as a painting of a hero dying. The Impressionists did as much as anybody to win this previously unheard-of freedom for the artist. Yet, by the next generation, painters began to abandon the subject altogether, and began to paint abstract pictures. Today the majority of pictures painted are abstract. Is there a connection between these two developments? Has art gone abstract because the artist is embarrassed by his freedom? Is it that, because he is free to paint anything, he doesn't know what to paint? Apologists for abstract art often talk of it as the art of maximum freedom. But could this be the freedom of the desert island? It would take too long to answer these questions properly. I believe there is a connection...

Q1. Which type of diabetes is common among young adults?     A)   Gestational diabetes     B)  \ Type 1 diabetes     C)   Type 2 diabetes

1.Cesarean delivery rates are gradually increasing worldwide both in developed and undeveloped countries. Reduction of Cesarean Section (CS) rates has become a priority for several health authorities globally, which might have contributed to the recently observed plateauing of this rate in some countries. The previous uterine scar is the most common single indication for repeat cesarean section contributing to almost a third of all cesarean deliveries in the USA. Vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC) represents one of the effective interventions to reduce CS rates. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the use of standardized and effective protocols to inform intrapartum care and decision making in VBACs is associated with low complications and acceptable success rates. However, some authors warn about the association of such practice with low success rates and relatively high risk of adverse events. Q1. The paragraph says about;     A)  ...

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Agriculture dominates change in India through its causal links with factor and product markets. It employs 60 per cent of the labour force and contributes 26 per cent of the gross domestic product. In the poorer states, its contribution to the domestic product is close to 40 per cent. Low productivity in agriculture has led to the concentration of the poor in this sector. Due to the sheer size of the agricultural economy and the importance of its major products (cereals) in the diets of the poor, gains in agricultural productivity have significant potential impact on poverty. Theoretically, it is possible to reduce poverty as well as expand the domestic market for industry by raising labour productivity in agriculture and spreading its gains among the low-income groups. Modelling of the linkages between agricultural and industrial growth has shown that a 10 per cent increase in agricultural output woul...

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/ phrases have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions. “Popular art" has a number of meanings, impossible to define with any precision, which range from folklore to junk. The poles are clear enough, but the middle tends to blur. The Hollywood Western of the 1930's, for example, has elements of folklore, but is closer to junk than to high art or folk art. There can be great trash, just as there is bad high art. The musicals of George Gershwin are great popular art, never aspiring to high art. Schubert and Brahms, however, used elements of popular music—folk themes—in works clearly intended as high art. The case of Verdi is a different one: he took a popular genre—bourgeois melodrama set to music (an accurate definition of nineteenth-century opera—and, without altering its fundamental nature, transmuted it into high art. This remains one of ...