Based on the given passage, answer the questions 31-35 :
We were nearly finished with listening to everybody's morning life when a myna came in, sat on the ceiling fan and started chattering loudly. Mala looked at her and said, "Sir, she too wants to talk about her morning routine!". This was a fine statement coming from Mala who was feeling a little inane since she had no special morning narrative to offer as a hosteller. Her remark cheered her up and everybody else too. It gave me an interesting idea which vaguely reflected the topic we had abandoned. I asked, how far do you think this myna has come from? No one took this question seriously, but it propelled me to go a step further, 'what else is present in our class that might have come from afar?' It was obvious that I was now referring to non-human participants but were they living or non-living? This question came from Rupal, one of the habitual late comers. 'Never mind', I said, 'say whatever you notice. She surprised everybody by saying that the electricity come from God knows where. Two students immediately intervened. 'you know it is coming from thermal power station'. "It might be coming from the national grid-it is all connected, you know." There was silence. Even the myna turned quiet. My job in such moments came down to prompting further, so I said, 'That's a great thought. Let us see if there are any other long-distance participants in our class.
My students started spotting things at a wild, inspired speed. Dust on the desks! The air! The sound of traffic! The dust seemed to have travelled the longest distance indeed-from Rajasthan as everybody thought. I was ready to conclude. "So, is that the longest commuter?" We were uncertain, but not quite ready to let the quest die. Jaya said "The sun has travelled lakhs of miles." I was stunned. So was everyone else. We had become aware of a phenomenon we had never thought about, how the sun came from so far away to make our class happen. The unpredicted outcomes of learning are far more important than the ones we can predict and plan for.
