What difference does the author note between the flute seller and the other hawkers?
Solution and Explanation
The author says that, unlike other hawkers, the flute seller plays slowly without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares. Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were incidental to his enterprise.
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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Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
(i) The heart is a pump that __(send) the blood circulating through our body. The pumping action__ (take place) when the left ventricle of the heart__ (contract). This __(force) the blood out into the arteries, which__ (expand) to receive the oncoming blood.
(ii) The African lungfish can live without water for up to four years. During a drought it__ (dig) a pit and__ (enclose) itself in a capsule of slime and earth, leaving a tiny opening for air. The capsule __(dry) and__ (harden), but when rain ___(come), the mud ____(dissolve) and the lungfish____ (swim) away.
(iii) MAHESH : We have to organise a class party for our teacher. ___(Do) anyone play an instrument?VIPUL : Rohit__ (play) the flute.
MAHESH : __(Do) he also act?
VIPUL : No, he ___(compose) music.
MAHESH : That’s wonderful!- CBSE Class IX
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- What is the belief at Pashupatinath about the end of Kaliyug?
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- “A slumber did my spirit seal,” says the poet. That is, a deep sleep ‘closed off’ his soul (or mind). How does the poet react to his loved one’s death? Does he feel bitter grief ? Or does he feel a great peace?
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Questions Asked in CBSE Class IX exam
(Street Plan) : A city has two main roads which cross each other at the centre of the city. These two roads are along the North-South direction and East-West direction.
All the other streets of the city run parallel to these roads and are 200 m apart. There are 5 streets in each direction. Using 1cm = 200 m, draw a model of the city on your notebook. Represent the roads/streets by single lines. There are many cross- streets in your model. A particular cross-street is made by two streets, one running in the North - South direction and another in the East - West direction. Each cross street is referred to in the following manner : If the 2nd street running in the North - South direction and 5th in the East - West direction meet at some crossing, then we will call this cross-street (2, 5). Using this convention, find:
(i) how many cross - streets can be referred to as (4, 3).
(ii) how many cross - streets can be referred to as (3, 4).
- CBSE Class IX
- Coordinate Geometry
- A driver of a car travelling at \(52\) \(km \;h^{–1}\) applies the brakes Shade the area on the graph that represents the distance travelled by the car during the period. (b) Which part of the graph represents uniform motion of the car?
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- Graphical Representation of Motion
- Discuss what these phrases mean to you.
(i) a yellow wood
(ii) it was grassy and wanted wear
(iii) the passing there
(iv) leaves no step had trodden black
(v) how way leads on to way- CBSE Class IX
- The fun they had
- Do you think Innisfree is only a place, or a state of mind? Does the poet actually miss the place of his boyhood days?
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- A truly beautiful mind
- Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why?
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- The fun they had