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Explain the passages with reference to the context :They were poor …………… where they let. |
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Answer» Context : The writer was travelling from New Delhi to Ranikhet. At every stop he alighted and talked with the people on current topics. But at one station he was surrounded by some children selling baskets. These were refugee children. Explanation : In these lines he is telling about these refugee children. The parents of these refugee children had to come to India at the time of partition due to religious fanaticism. When they started their journey, they were very poor and they had very little food and some other items. But their journey was very long and soon their food was exhausted. Now, they were hungry and became very weak. Due to weakness they fell on the way side and died. |
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