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A Baker from Goa
Question - 1
What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about?
Answer:The elders in Goa are nostalgic about the past days when the Portuguese ruled over them and their love for bread & loaves. The writer says that these people have left the city but the bakers still exist.
Question - 2
Is bread-making still popular in Goa?
Answer:Bread-making is still popular in Goa as there is still a colony existing, having furnaces, moulders and mixers to bake the loaves.
Question - 3
When would the baker come every day? Why did the children run to meet him?
Answer:The baker would visit twice a day
(i) Early in the morning
(ii) After selling his stuff in the evening
The children would run to meet him to get bread bangles made of sweet bread which were the leftovers in his basket for free.
Question - 4
What did the baker wear?
Answer:During the Portuguese days, they wore a peculiar dress called kabai. It was a single piece long from reaching down to the knees. In the narrator's childhood, they saw bakers wearing a shirt and trousers which were shorter than full-length ones and longer than half pants.
Question - 5
How would you prove that baking is a profitable profession in Goa?
Answer:The padar and his family never starved. Their servants too led a dignified life. They always looked cheerful. Their plump physique (jackfruit-like) was an open testimony to prove that they were wealthy.
Question - 6
Describe the baker as a friend and a companion to the children of Goa.
Answer:Bread is an important part of Goan life. They baked it for every celebration such as for engagements, marriages, parties and Christmas feasts. The baker made his musical entry with the sound of the bells and the thud of the bamboo stick, awakening the people. He supported the baskets on his head with one hand and banged the bamboo on the ground. Every child eagerly waits for the site of him and hunts for their favourite bread bangles in the basket. The baker treats them politely and shares the contents without charging them.
II
Coorg
Question - 1
Where is Coorg?
Answer:Coorg is the smallest district in Karnataka, and is located between Mysore and Mangalore.
Question - 2
What is the story about the Kodavu people's descent?
Answer:There are many interesting stories about the origin people of Coorg. It is believed that they were Arabs originally as their long attire proves this. Another story states that a part of Alexander's army settled there as returning to their homeland became impractical. These people married the locals which is evident from the generation mixed culture different from the Hindu mainstream.
Question - 3
What are some of the things you now know about
(i) the people of Coorg?
(ii) the main crop of Coorg?
(iii) the sports it offers to tourists?
(iv) the animals you are likely to see in Coorg?
(v) its distance from Bangalore, and how to get there?
(i) They are very independent and believed to be of a warrior class, having a Greek or Arabic descent. They are very hospitable. They relate tales of valour to their sons. They are also called Kodavus and are allowed to keep firearms without a license. The author has described them as a proud race of martial men and beautiful women.
(ii) Coffee is their main crop found in abundance. Coffee estates are vast tucked under the tree canopies in prime corners.
(iii) River rafting, canoeing, rappelling, rock climbing, and mountain biking.
(iv) Birds, bees, butterflies, Macaques, Malabar squirrels, langurs, slender loris and wild elephants.
(v) 260km from Bangalore. We can get there by air, rail, and road.
III
Tea from Assam
Question - 1
What was the Chinese legend regarding tea leaves?
Answer:Rajvir, a tourist visiting his friend Pranjol in Assam, shares information that a Chinese emperor always boiled water before drinking it. One day, a few leaves from the twigs burning under the pot fell into the water giving it a delicious flavour. It is said that these leaves were tea leaves and thus discovered in China.
Question - 2
What is the Indian legend regarding tea leaves?
Answer:Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of the plants when put in hot water and drank banished sleep.
Question - 3
Describe the beautiful sites Rajvir experiences from the train.
Answer:Rajvir came across soft, green paddy fields and tiny tea plants amidst the orderly rows of bushes stretched far and wide. He also observed groups of tea-pluckers with bamboo baskets on their back, wearing plastic aprons, and plucking newly sprouted leaves.
Question - 4
What other information did Mr Barua tell Rajvir?
Answer:The sprouting period lasts from May to July and yields the best tea.
Over 80 crore cups of tea are drunk every day throughout the world.
Assam has the largest concentration of tea plantations.
It was first drunk in China and around the sixteenth century came to Europe but was used more as a medicine than a beverage.
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