How does the author describe Kathmandu’s busiest streets?
Solution and Explanation
The author describes Kathmandu’s busiest streets as vivid, mercenary and religious, with small shrines to flower-adorned deities along the narrowest and busiest streets. The streets are full of fruit sellers, flute sellers, hawkers of postcards; shops selling Western cosmetics, film rolls and chocolate; or copper utensils and Nepalese antiques.
Film songs blare out from the radios, car horns sound, bicycle bells ring, stray cows look questioningly at motorcycles, vendors shout out their wares.
Top Questions on Kathmandu
- Here is your diary entry when you visited Agra. Read the points and try to write a travelogue describing your visit to Agra and the Taj Mahal. You may add more details.
January 2003 — rise before dawn — take the Shatabdi Express at 6.15 a.m. from Delhi — meet a newly-married couple on train — talk about Himachal Pradesh — get off the train — enter the once-grand city, Agra — twisted alleys — traffic dense — rickshaws, cars, people — vendors selling religious artifacts, plastic toys, spices and sweets — go to the Taj Mahal — constructed entirely of white marble — magical quality — colour changes with varying of light and shadow — marble with gemstones inside — reflection of the Taj Mahal in the pond — school-children, tourists — tourist guides following people.- CBSE Class IX
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- The text you read is a travelogue where the author, Vikram Seth, talks about his visit to two sacred places in Kathmandu. Imagine that you were with Vikram Seth on his visit to Pashupatinath temple, and you were noting down all that you saw and did there, so that you could write a travelogue later.
Record in point form • what you see when you reach the Pashupatinath temple • what you see happening inside the temple • what you do when inside the temple • what you see outside the temple • what your impressions are about the place.- CBSE Class IX
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- Kathmandu
- Name the two temples the author visited in Kathmandu.
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- The writer says, “All this I wash down with Coca Cola.” What does ‘all this’ refer to?
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- What does Vikram Seth compare to the quills of a porcupine?
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(i) The kind of person the doctor is (money, possessions)
(ii) The kind of person he wants to be (appearance, ambition)- CBSE Class IX
- The snake and the mirror
- Lushkoff is earning thirty five roubles a month. How is he obliged to Sergei for this?
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- The beggar
ABCD is a quadrilateral in which AD = BC and ∠ DAB = ∠ CBA (see Fig. 7.17). Prove that
(i) ∆ ABD ≅ ∆ BAC
(ii) BD = AC
(iii) ∠ ABD = ∠ BAC.
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- Iswaran the storyteller
- (i) His thoughts when he looks into the mirror
(ii) His thoughts when the snake is coiled around his arm- CBSE Class IX
- The snake and the mirror