Sucheta Kripalani Was Born As Sucheta Team of Just Four Stoutly Opposed the Idea on People
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PROJECTS FEATURES 07 ni Kripala Sucheta A Pioneer among Chief Ministers her; yet, Sucheta found that she had much The game Angry Birds ucheta Kripalani (1908 – 1974), freedom in common with him. Their friendship fSighter and politician, who served as Chief has sold more than 7 flourished and gradually developed into million copies on Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1963 to 1967, love, and they decided to get married. holds the distinction of being the first Apple’s iPhone. The However, all was not smooth game was made by a woman Chief Minister of India. sailing. Sucheta’s mother Sucheta Kripalani was born as Sucheta team of just four stoutly opposed the idea on people. Mazumdar on June 24, 1908 in Ambala, the grounds that Kripalani Punjab. Her grandfather had been a rich was too old for her and that landlord of Bengal who had joined the Sucheta’s life with him would be Brahmo Samaj and subsequently left his one of austerity and hardship. native land to work for the Samaj, Mahatma Gandhi, too, was against eventually settling down in Punjab. His son the marriage as he believed that family (Sucheta’s father), Surendra Nath responsibilities would distract Mazumdar, had studied in Lahore Medical Kripalani from his work in the College and was working as a government freedom movement. doctor in Ambala. So, Sucheta and her However, the couple siblings grew up in Punjab. stood firm and finally, As Dr. Mazumdar’s job necessitated everyone yielded. In frequent transfers, Sucheta had to change April 1936, they got schools at regular intervals. Eventually she married according to was sent to a boarding school in Delhi, Brahmo rites in where she completed her matriculation. Varanasi. Subsequently she graduated from the Kripalani, who was the General Government Women’s College in Lahore, panic-stricken refugees. Secretary of the Congress, led an austere In 1962, Sucheta became a minister where her father was then posted, and went life in two rooms of the Congress party on to do her post-graduation in history in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet and held the The common phrase "eat office, Swaraj Bhavan, in Allahabad. portfolios of Labour, Community like a bird" should mean from Delhi University, topping the list of Sucheta continued to live in Varanasi successful candidates and winning a gold Development, and Industry. With the something quite different! where she worked, visiting her husband on resignation of Chief Minister C. B. Gupta Many birds eat twice their medal. weekends and holidays. This continued When Sucheta was in college, her father in 1963, she became the Chief Minister of weight in food each day. In until 1939, when she resigned her job and Uttar Pradesh and continued in that post fact, a bird requires more fell ill with tuberculosis. Two years later, he joined Kripalani in Allahabad. died. Sucheta was now faced with the till 1967. An unassuming person who food in proportion to its Sucheta now started taking active part in shunned the fruits of office, she did not size than a baby or a cat. burden of supporting her family, whose the national movement. During the Quit financial position had taken a nose-dive. occupy the palatial bungalow allotted to the India movement, she went underground Chief Minister but resided in its annexe, She took up the job of a lecturer in Benaras and organized anti-British resistance, Hindu University. which had earlier been occupied by her following which she was arrested and kept predecessors’ private secretaries. She It was a heady time of political unrest, in solitary confinement for over a year. In The heaviest with the freedom struggle in full swing. worked hard to understand and solve the 1946, she was elected to the Constituent people’s problems and tackled many tricky flying bird is The university was at the forefront of the Assembly from the Uttar Pradesh the Kori movement, with strikes and issues with foresight and courage. legislature. In 1971, Sucheta retired from politics and Bustard of demonstrations frequently taking place. After riots broke out in Noakhali in East Sucheta came into contact with the devoted herself to social work along with Africa, it Bengal during the Partition, Sucheta her husband. Her strenuous public work weighs politician and Congress party secretary accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on his Acharya J. B. Kripalani, who was then a took a toll on her health. On December 1, about 16 peace mission to Noakhali and worked 1974, she passed away after a massive heart professor of Constitutional History at the tirelessly to provide solace and relief to the kg! university. Kripalani was 20 years older than attack. What is onomatopoeia? Onomatopoeia is the literary device of using words that irds imitate the sounds of the objects they refer to. Take, for s in b instance, the sentence ‘ Water drips from the leaking tap’. ord Here, the word ‘drip’ sounds similar to the actual noise W The names of some birds are given below. Cross out made by drops of liquid falling. Other examples the letters you don’t need in these names to find the answers to of verbs that mimic the sound they represent the definitions given alongside. include ‘the crash of cymbals’, ‘a snake’s hiss ’, 1) CORMORANT – Angry lecture or tirade ‘the rustle of silk’, ‘the buzzing of a bee’, ‘the c awing a 2) SPARROW – Animal’s foot crow’, ‘the creaking of a door’, and ‘the screech of brakes’. 3) KINGFISHER – Relatives Words like ‘wow’, ‘awe’, and ‘awesome’ give us the sense 4) FLAMINGO – Delay between events of open-mouthed wonder. Similarly, words like ‘giggle’ and 5) VULTURE – To tempt or seduce ‘chuckle’ imitate the different kinds of mirth they represent. 6) OSTRICH – Involuntary muscular In poems, onomatopoeia helps to bring out the full flavour of words and convey an idea powerfully to the reader. Flamingos twitch pair for a 7) PENGUIN – A play on words Comparison and association are strengthened by 8) PEACOCK – To strike syllables that imitate or reproduce the sounds they make. lifetime. with the beak Edgar Allen Poe makes excellent use of this device in his Some stay poem ‘The Bells’. Each verse gives us the sound of the bell it with their describes – tinkling sleigh bells, clanging fire bells, moaning funeral mates for 50 k c e P ) 8 , n u P ) 7 , c i T ) 6 , e r u L ) 5 bells, and so on. Tennyson is another poet who effectively uses years or more. , g a L ) 4 , n i K ) 3 , w a P ) 2 , t n a R ) 1 onomatopoeia in his poems. He literally makes us feel the heaviness of a drowsy summer day by using a series of ‘m’ sounds in the following s r e w s n A famous lines: The moan of doves in immemorial elms , And murmuring of innumerable ..