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Explain the passages with reference to the context :One hundred dollar …………… market they had seen. |
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Answer» Context : On a platform the writer was surrounded by children selling baskets. These were the sons and daughters of refugees who had come to India from Pakistan at the time of partition. They were very poor and earned some money by selling simple articles made by their own hands. Explanation : In these lines the writer has estimated the income of these children and wonders how they could meet the expenses of their living. Their income was not more than two dollars a week and that was by selling the hand-made baskets. The buyers of these baskets were also poor people living there. The writer was a foreigner, an American. So the children thought him a good customer of their articles and so they surrounded him on all sides like locusts to sell their articles. |
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