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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in Parliament, on 14th August 1947. It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of all times and to be a landmark oration that captures the essence of the triumphant culmination of the largely non­violent Indian independence struggle against the British Empire in India.

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon the assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow­mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.

To the people of India, whose representatives we are, this is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell".

Select the answer which best reflects Nehru's point of view.

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Daily pricing

P : is being seen as a ploy

Q : government to escape any political backlash

R : to increase prices while allowing the

The "Loktak" lake is located in which state of India?

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A significant number

P-­in the rural non-­farm sector
Q-­to be created
R­-of these jobs will have

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After walking around

P-­to quench their thirst
Q­-a bit, the women searched
R­-for a hand pump

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Both the families were invited but neither (had accepted) our invitation.

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It is hard to

P-­of some
Q­-miss the political significance
R­-of these beneficiaries

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To many women human rights are

P : foreign to their culture and

Q : of individual and community identity

R : challenge deeply held notions