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Question 1:

Why does the poet say the squirrel “wore a question mark for the tail”? Draw a squirrel, or find a picture of a squirrel sitting on the ground. How would you describe its tail?

Answer:

The poet says that the squirrel wore a question mark for its tail because the shape of a squirrel’s tail resembles a question mark.

Question 2:

Do we usually say that an animal ‘Wears’ a tail? What do we say? (Think: Does an animal wear a coat? Consult a dictionary if you like, and find out how ‘wear’ is used in different ways.)

Answer:

Usually, it is said that an animal ‘has’ a tail. The poet has used ‘wore’ in the poem in order to make an image of what he saw. This is an example of imagery.

The use of the word ‘wear’ in different situations can be shown with the help of the following sentences:

My friend was wearing yellow on Sunday.

Our Science teacher always wears a smile.

Movie stars wear their hair in different ways.

Question 3:

“He liked to tease and play”. Who is teasing whom? How?

Answer:

The squirrel is teasing the poet and his friends. When they ran around its tree, it went the other way.

Advantages of external sources of recruitment :
(i) Qualified personnel An organisation can attract highly qualified personnel through external sources.
(ii) Wider choice External sources create a large pool of candidates to choose from, for the organisation.
(iii) Fresh talent External sources helps to bring fresh talent or new blood into the organisation.
(iv) Competitive spirit New entrants and qualified freshers creates competitive spirit and helps to improve performance.

Newton’s First Law of Motion also known as Law of Inertia states that every object persists to stay in uniform motion in a straight line or in the state of rest unless an external force acts upon it.

Newton’s Second Law of Motion states that force is equal to the change in momentum per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration, i.e. F = m*a. Learn about the Acceleration in detail here.

Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Riding a bicycle is a good example of Newton’s 2nd law. In this example, the bicycle is the mass. The leg muscles pushing on the pedals of the bicycle is the force.

The motion of a ball falling through the atmosphere, or a model rocket being launched up into the atmosphere are both excellent examples of Newton’s 1st law.

The narrator of Ranga’s Marriage thinks that English language has entered the lives of the common people and is held in high esteem by the villagers.

People use certain English words while speaking in their daily language which creates confusion in many cases.

He finds it disgraceful to include English words while speaking Kannada.

The astrologer had been briefed and tutored by Shyama about what to say. He did the same. He pretended to do some calculations in front of Ranga and concluded that a girl was responsible for Ranga’s present condition and the girl’s name perhaps was similar to that of some things found in ocean, such as Ratan or Kamala. Ranga was already interest in Ratna. In this way the astrologer planed an important role in bringing about the marriage of Ranga with Ratna as he helped the narrator who made Ranga admit his love for Ratna. The astrologer gave Ranga confidence that it was possible to marry the girl he was thinking of.

The narrator felt that Ranga and Ratna was a suitable match for each other. He arranged a meeting in which Ranga could meet Ratna and get impressed with her quality of singing. He manipulated things in a clever way and made Ranga fall in love with her. He finally got them married.

Ranga believes that one should only say yes to a marriage when he has a right girl who is mature enough to understand the concept of marriage without showing immaturity every now and then.

It is important to marry a girl who is admired by the man to maintain a civil and happy relationship.

The pictorial representation of a grouped data, in the form of vertical or horizontal rectangular bars, where the lengths of the bars are equivalent to the measure of data, are known as bar graphs or bar charts.

The bars drawn are of uniform width, and the variable quantity is represented on one of the axes. Also, the measure of the variable is depicted on the other axes. The heights or the lengths of the bars denote the value of the variable, and these graphs are also used to compare certain quantities. The frequency distribution tables can be easily represented using bar charts which simplify the calculations and understanding of data.

'Ranga's marriage is a story narrated in a hilarious style. The narrator's pride in his native village provides a lot of fun. His rampant description of his village and his digression from the main topic is not at all boring, but brings a smile to the lips of the reader. His description of the special mango of his village and the big leaf of a water plant, all strike a humorous cord.

The narrator describes the crowd in the house of Ranga in a very funny way. He laughs at the pretense of the modern English speaking generation and their inability to communicate with the common people of the village through the episode of the village woman mistaking her customer when he asks her for 'change'. 

When he starts his manipulation of Ranga, it is very hilarious at every stage. When he traps the modern Ranga into seeing Ratna and falling for her, the reader cannot but laugh. The way the narrator manipulates the astrologer is again very humorous. When Ranga falls into his trap and marries the young Ratna, contrary to all his modern ideas, the reader cannot but laugh out loud.

"Ranga's marriage is a story that offers a good laugh through out its length.

ln the story "Ranga's Marriage" written by" Masti Venkatesha Lyengar "
The narrator wants Ranga to be married with Ratna

The narrator take the help of the story in which a hegoat scare the lion by his cleverness so narrator also trapped Ranga and get him married with Ratna with his cleverness .
As the Lion trapped by hegoat and so narrator do with Ranga so he compares Ranga to the the lion.

All steps taken by the narrator for Ranga's Marriage are perfectly planned & finally he succeeded in his plans .

Shastri the astrologer was a good friend of the narrator.  Before taking Ranga to the astrologer, the narrator met him and taught him about the plan.  According Shastri told Ranga that he loves a girl whose name starts with the letter R and her name resembles something found in an ocean.  When Ranga started thinking about Ratna, he motivated him by saying that he would surely be able to marry that girl.  He added that as per his stars, the girl was the solution to all his problems.

No. Ranga did not select his bride according to the new fangled ideas on marriage he had acquired. He fell in love for an eleven-year-old girl Ratna and married her.

(i) The coordination number of an atom, ion or molecule is the number of constituent particles which touch that particular atom, atom or molecule.
(ii)
(a) in a cubic close packed structure coordination number is 12
(b) ) in a body–centered cubic structure coordination number is 8.

The narrator is proud of his village. He reveals his pride in his small village Hosahalli when he speaks glowingly of it. If the state of Mysore is to Bharatvarsha what the sweet ‘Karigadabu’ is to a festive meal, then Hosahalli is to Mysore State what the filling is to ‘Karigadabu’.

Hosahalli is neither mentioned by the English experts, nor by the Indians. As a result, Hosahalli is not in geography books or atlases.

English sahibs had no idea that such a place exists in India. Eventually, our own Indian geographers also forgot to mention it. When both sahibs and geographers forgot to mention the place on a map, it is vain to even think that cartographer would remember it.

The narrator asked Rama Rao’s wife (Ratna’s aunt) to send her to his house to get some buttermilk. When Ratna came, he sent for Ranga. He asked Ratna to sit for a while and sing a song. Ranga came for while she was singing. His curiosity and interest were roused.

Q u e s t i o n : भारत के सामने जो मुख्य समस्या है वह बढ़ती जनसंख्या है। (सरल वाक्य में बदलिए)

A n s w e r :

 भारत के सामने मुख्य समस्या बढ़ती जनसंख्या है।

When Ranga returned from Bangalore, people came to see Ranga out of curiosity. He had gone to Bangalore to study. There he studied for six months and returned with a great knowledge of English. The curious villagers collected around his house to observe whether his education had changed him. But everyone was surprised to see that Ranga was the same as he had been six months ago when he had first left their village. One old lady commented that he had not changed his caste in six months after feeling the sacred thread still on his chest.

Answer:
Ranga possessed certain qualities that endeared him to Shyama, the narrator. Ranga was well educated, he respected the traditions. He bent low to touch Shyama’s feet. He did not remove his sacred thread.

Public Interest Litigation or PIL

The Supreme Court, therefore, devised a mechanism of Public Interest Litigation or PIL in the early 1980s in order to increase access to justice. It allowed any individual or organisation to file a PIL in the High Court or the Supreme Court on behalf of these whose rights were being violated. The legal process was greatly simplified and even a letter or telegram addressed to the Supreme Court or the High Court could be treated as a PIL.

The narrator decided Ranga should marry Ratna. He arranged that Ranga should hear Ratna sing and get a glimpse of her. He made Ranga think she was out of reach for him. Then he arranged with the astrologer to tell him that he could get the girl he liked. Ranga and Ratna were married.

There was a joint family of six members, including grandparents. It was the 75th birthday of my grandmother and the family planned to celebrate. her birthday. Love and Lovy, the grandson and the grand daughter were excited to celebrate their grandmother's birthday. Harish and Harsha, the parents of Love and Lovy, wanted to have dinner in a restaurant but the grandparents were reluctant to spend so much money. But when Harish and Harsha insisted, they agreed. All the six members went to a famous restaurant in the city. They decorated the table and brought some garlands for their grandparents. They all garlanded the grandparents and touched their feet. The grandparents wanted all the members to have dinner together but Harish and Harsha wanted to feed the grandparents first with their own hands. Two dishes of food were ordered and Harish started feeding his father, so did Love and Harsha, more food, started feeding grandmother followed by Lavy. When the grandparents had taken food, they ordered more food and had their dinner. When they started to leave the restaurant, a man sitting in the corner called him and told him that he had left a lot of things there. In enquiring about those things, the man said that he had set an example for the coming generations to respect their elders. Harish and Harsha were overwhelmed by his appreciation.