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English Core · 2024 · 5 marks
CBSE 2024 · Region 2 · Set 2 · Q12
Imagine you are Mukund Padmanabhan (The Interview) and you interviewed M. Hamel, after he had finished delivering the last lesson (The Last Lesson).…
Imagine you are Mukund Padmanabhan (The Interview) and you interviewed M. Hamel, after he had finished delivering the last lesson (The Last Lesson). Write a paragraph on Hamel's views on individual responsibility and nationalism.
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What CBSE’s own marking scheme for this paper expects an answer to cover.
Realization of individual responsibility
Display honesty
as parents- give importance to education, not to send children to mill / fields to earn money
as students- neither to procrastinate nor to take education lightly
as teachers- engage students in academic pursuits only
as villagers / community- give importance to mother tongue
Nationalism
must realise the importance of mother tongue and education
hold fast to one's identity
language is the key to freedom/ identity
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