59. Reading Skills Comprehension: India Today

India Today

India today is certainly not an India of anybody’s dream. It is now chaotic and turbulent. Its inhabitants are torn with communal strife, casteism, parochialism and regionalism. The political leaders are not patriots of a very high order. They are not wedded to higher political ideals. They yearn for power, their personalities are disintegrated. There is mass discontent among the people. Prices are rising at an alarming rate. The production has gone down. In fact, it needs a lot of improvement in all spheres of the national front. 

The people of India as they are today are self-centred, backward, corrupt and politically ignorant. There are dishonest on all fronts. They have lost confidence and look to the government for everything. They are a crisis of character. Everyone has the desire to become a millionaire by hook or by crook. They want easy money. They don’t mind adopting the worst tactics for the purpose. More than 60% of the people are living below the poverty line. Wealth tends to go on to concentrate in the hands of a few people.

The society is torn with internal strifes and tensions. There is an absence of communal harmony. There are loot, arson and murder even on the slightest pretext. There are wide-spread atrocities on the weak and the down-trodden. There is a large scale of exploitation on all fronts. There is no equality of opportunity. Those who have money, power and influence, rule the people

Questions :

(a) Why are the political leaders of India not true patriots?

 (b) What does the writer say about the people of India?

(c) What does everyone desire?

(d) Why are more than 60% of Indians below the poverty line?

(e) Find words from the passage which mean the same as (i) fields, (ii) struggles.

(f)What is the form of our society today?

Answers:

(a) The political leaders of India are not true patriots because they yearn for power and personalities are disintegrated.

(b) The writer says that the people of India are self-centred, backward, corrupt and politically ignorant.

(c) Everyone desires to become a millionaire by hook or by crook.

(d) More than 60% people are below the poverty line because wealth tends to get accumulated in the hands of a few people.

(e) (i) spheres.              (ii) strifes.

(f) Today our society is torn with internal strifes and tensions.

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