LCC Resource Materials

1. A quest for the 'Idea of India' as reflected in Shashi Tharoor's The Idea of India: India's Mosaic of Multiplicities. Discuss.

Ans: https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/merabharatkahan-an-incessant-quest-for-the-idea- of-india

And /or https://penguin.co.in/who-is-an-indian-and-whose-india-is-it-shashi-tharoors-quest-into-the-idea- of-a-nation/

2. How does communal harmony pervade in Ismat Chugtai's Roots?

Ans. http://kcgjournal.org/kcg/wp- content/uploads/MultiDisciplinary/issue22/Issue22MrsRupalNVora.pdf

3. Write an essay on the life and career of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.

Ans: https://www.guffo.in/gandhian-garhwal-chandi/9/

Short Questions:

1. What does the story Roots depict?

Ans: Roots depicts a story about an old woman who is unable to understand the intricacies of Partition. She doesn’t want to leave her house for newly formed Pakistan. She loves her roots and doesn’t want to get cutoff from her roots. She is not ready to leave her land, country and her neighbors and likens this leaving to death.

2. Who was Shashi Tharoor? Who wrote The of India: India's Mosaic of Multiplicities?

Ans: Shashi Tharoor was a pioneer in using social media as an instrument of political interaction. Till 2013 he was India's most-followed politician on Twitter, until being overtaken that year by the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Shashi Tharoor wrote The of India: India's Mosaic of Multiplicities.

3. Who was Ismat chugtai? Who wrote Roots?

Ans: Ismat Chugtai was a writer, an educator and an icon of women's empowerment. But, above all else, she was unapologetic and outspoken. Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai (1911 - 1991) understood the complexities of a woman's mind, and her work reflected the different shades of the woman of her time. Ismat Chugtai wrote Roots.

4. Who was Ramchandra Guha? Who wrote A Gandhian in Garhwal?

Ans: Ramachandra Guha was a historian and biographer based in Bengaluru. His books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press, 1989), and an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002), which was chosen by The Guardian as one of the ten best books on cricket ever written. Ramachandra Guha wrote A Gandhian in Garhwal.

5. Who was Chandi Prasad Bhatt?

Ans: Chandi Prasad Bhatt (born 1934) was an Indian Gandhian environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the Chipko Movement, in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1982.