LOST SPRING|| IMPORTANT AND PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTION SOLUTION || CLASS 12 AHSEC

 

 

LOST SPRING

CLASS 12 || AHSEC

IMPORTANT QUESTION

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LOST SPRING|| IMPORTANT AND PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTION SOLUTION || CLASS 12 AHSEC

 

 

1. What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and wherehashecomefrom? (AHSEC 2014, 16)
Ans: Saheb is a ragpicker. He is looking for 'gold' in the garbage dumps. Sometimes he finds a rupee, even a ten-rupee note. If luck favors, he can find a silver coin too. There is always hope of finding more. Saheb has come from Dhaka in Bangladesh. Now he is living in Seemapuri. It is a settlement of ragpickers at the outskirts of Delhi.

2. What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?(AHSEC2015)
Ans: Travelling across the country the author has seen poor children walking barefoot, without shoes. One explanation is that it has become a tradition for them to stay barefoot. But the author doubts it. The lack of money is the most valid explanation. Children like Saheb can't afford shoes. When Saheb gets a pair of shoes he does wear them.

3. Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain. (AHSEC 2012, 14, 20)
Ans: Saheb doesn't seem to be happy working at the tea-stall. Now he feels bound and burdened. The steel canister he holds now is very heavy. The plastic bag he used to carry on his shoulder earlier was very light. The bag was his own. The canister belongs to the master. Saheb is no longer his own master.

4. What makes the city of Firozabad famous? (AHSEC 2015)
Ans: Firozabad is famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in makiñg bangles. It is the centre of India's glass-blowing Industry. Families have spent generations making bangles for all the women in India.

5. Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry. (AHSEC 2020)
Ans: Working in the glass bangles industry is quite hazardous. It employs about 20,000 children or tender ages. None of them knows that it is illegal for children to work in such industries. But nobody cares for the law in Firozabad. The bangle makers work in the glass furnaces with high temperature. They work in dingy cells without air and light. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is why they often end up losing their eyesight before they become adults. Mukesh's grandfather became blind with the dust from polishing the glass of bangles. Years of mind-numbing toil have killed all their initiative and the ability to dream. Thousands of boys and girls sit with their fathers and mothers in dark hutments. They shape pieces of coloured glass into circles of bangles.

 

 

6. What does Mukesh want to be? (AHSEC 2012, 15, 20)
Ans: Mukesh wanted to be a motor mechanic.

7. What is the significance of bangles in an Indian Society? (AHSEC 2012, 17)
Ans: In Indian Society, bangles symbolize a married woman's 'Suhag', auspiciousness in marriage. It is customary for an Indian bride to wear red bangles.

8. Describe the miserable plight of the people of Firozabad. (AHSEC 2012, 14, 15, 17)
Ans: Firozabad is the centre of glass blowing industry where families have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, making bangles for all women of the country. Born in the caste of bangle makers, they have seen nothing but bangles. Despite hard labour they had never enough to eat or to send their sons and daughters to school. As a result, what they do is to teach the children what they do know- the art of bangle making. In every dark hut of the town children with their parents sit before flickering oil lamps welding coloured glasses into bangles. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is why many children lose their eyesight even before they are adults. Ages of exploitation have killed their initiatives and the ability to protest. They are so caught in the vicious circle of middlemen that they cannot even think of originating co-operatives. As a result, they have begun to believe that born in the caste bangle makers they are doomed to suffer.

9. What is 'Lost Spring' about? (AHSEC 2013)
Ans: 'Lost Spring' is about the deprived childhood of some poor children.

10. Where was the original home of Saheb's family? (AHSEC 2013, 20)
Ans: The original home of Saheb's family was in Dhaka in Bangladesh.

11. 'Garbage to them is gold'. Why does the author say so about the ragpickers? (AHSEC 2013)
Ans: The author said it because it is the garbage that gives them food and the roofs, so the garbage is like gold for them.

12. What is the irony inherent of Sabeb's full name? ( AHSEC 2013, 16)
Ans: Saheb's full name Saheb-e-Alam means 'Lord of the Universe'. It is ironical to name for a poor ragpicker like Saheb who is not even a master of his own fate to call lord of the universe.

13. Who is the author of ’Lost Spring'? (AHSEC 2014, 12)
Ans:  The author of ’Lost Spring' is Anees Jung.

14. What does the author of 'Lost Spring' find Saheb is doing every morning? (AHSEC 2014, 15)
Ans: The author of 'Lost Spring' find Saheb scrounging garbage dumps in the streets of Delhi every morning.

15. Why do the young inhabitants of Firozabad end up losing their eye-sight? (AHSEC 2016)
Ans: In Firozabad most families are engaged in the glass-making industry. In every dark hutment, young boys and girls sit with their father and mothers welding pieces of coloured glass into circles of bangles in front of flickering oil lamps. Their eyes are more adjusted to the dark than to the light outside. That is why they often lose their eyesight even before they become adults.

16. What does 'garbage' mean for the elders of Seemapuri?  (AHSEC 2017)
Ans: For the elder of Seemapuri garbage mean the means of survival. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads.

17. Where Mukesh live?  (AHSEC 2017)
Ans: Mukesh live with his family in a half-built shack in a dirty overcrowded bangle maker’s colony in Firozabad.

18. Why have Saheb and his family migrated to Seemapuri? (AHSEC2018)
Ans: Saheb and his family have migrated to Seemapuri because their homes and fields were swept away by many storms.

19. What are the two different worlds in Firozabad? (AHSEC 2018)
Ans: Anees Jung rightly analyses that there are two distinct worlds operating in Firozabad. The first world consists of families engaged in the business of making bangles. They are exploited and are caught in a web of poverty. The other world consists of 'sahukars or moneylenders, the middlemen, and the policemen. Together under their eyes, 20,000 children work illegally in glass furnaces with high temperatures. Even the young fall into the vicious circle of middlemen. These agents trapped their fathers and forefathers as well. If the young get themselves organized they are 'hauled up' by the police.

20. Describe the bangle makers of Firozabad. How does the vicious circles of Sahukars, the middlemen never allow them to come out of poverty? (AHSEC 2018)
Ans: Most people in Firozabad are engaged in making glass bangles. But these people who have spent generations working around furnaces, welding glass, and making bangles for all the women of the country have always led a miserable life. They have never earned enough money even to feed their families. Few of them can afford to send their sons and daughters to school. As a result, they teach their children what they know - the art of bangle making. Therefore in Firozabad today there are more than 20,000 children working in glass furnaces with high temperatures in dingy cells without air and light. Ages of continuous suffering have made them believe that born in the caste of bangle makers they are doomed to suffer for god-given lineage cannot be broken. In fact, they are victims of the worst kind of exploitation by the vicious circle of Sahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, and bureaucrats. This vicious circle of middlemen has never allowed the bangle makers to be organized in co-operatives. If the young get themselves organized they are 'hauled up' by the police. It is in the interest of the vicious circle to keep these bangle makers in a perpetual state of poverty. There is no leader among them to help them to get out of this situation. These helpless bangle makers are trapped in a spiral that moves from poverty to apathy, to greed, and to injustice.

21. What was the promise made by Anees Jung to Saheb? (AHSEC 2018)
Ans: Anees Jung promised Saheb that she would start a school and asked him to come.

22. Where does Saheb originally hail from? (AHSEC 2019)
Ans: Saheb originally hails from Dhaka in Bangladesh.

23. What is the actual name of Saheb? What does it signify? (AHSEC 2019)
Ans: The actual name of Saheb is 'Saheb-e-Alam'. It signifies 'Lord of the Universe'.

24. Give a brief description of Seemapuri? (AHSEC 2020)
Ans: Seemapuri is a place on the outskirts of Delhi that was a wilderness till 1971 when migrants from Bangladesh illegally occupied it. There now live more than 10,000 of them in huts of mud with roofs of tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage, drainage, running water, and other amenities of civilized life. They are all ragpickers and they have lived here more than thirty years without an identity, without permits but with ration cards that get their names on voters' lists and enable them to buy grain. Food is more important for them for survival than identity. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking.