Class 12 English - Flamingo - Chapter Lost Spring NCERT Solutions | How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realise

Is Saheb happy working at the tea-stall? Explain.

Would you agree that promises made to poor children are rarely kept? Why do you think this happens in the incidents narrated in the text?

How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?

Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.

What forces conspire to keep the workers in the bangle industry of Firozabad in poverty?

What is Saheb looking for in the garbage dumps? Where is he and where has he come from?

What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?

What explanations does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?

Why should child labour be eliminated and how?

What makes the city of Firozabad famous?

What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?

What is the “misadventure” that William Douglas speaks about?

From where did the peddler get the idea of the world being a rattrap?

Strike out what is not true in the following.

a. Rajkumar Shukla was
    (i) a sharecropper.
    (ii) a politician.
    (iii) delegate.
    (iv) a landlord.

b. Rajkumar Shukla was
    (i) poor.
    (ii) physically strong.
    (iii) illiterate.

What does the writer mean by ‘the fiery misery’ of those subjected to make-up’?

What are some of the positive views on interviews?

Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?

What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?

What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool? What plans did he make to come to the surface?

Why was he amused by this idea?

What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?

Name one example to show that Gemini studios was influenced by the plays staged by MRA.

How did Douglas make sure that he conquered the old terror?

How does Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future?

What did the peasants pay the British landlords as rent? What did the British now want instead and why? What would be the impact of synthetic indigo on the prices of natural indigo?

How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?

What does The God that Failed refer to?

How did the episode change the plight of the peasants?

What does the writer mean by ‘the fiery misery’ of those subjected to make-up’?

Why did Gandhi agree to a settlement of 25 per cent refund to the farmers?