How have the people of the community helped one another? What role do the women of Kalikuda play during these days?
The people of the community united and helped each other under a young leader prashant. together they pressurized the merchant to give rice for the people in the shelter. They gathered branches from fallen trees and lit a fire on which they cooked rice for everyone to eat. When the military helicopter dropped some food parcels but did not return, the implemented a unique way to communicate with the passing helicopters . children lied in the sand with the utensils on their stomach on indicate they were hungry. The message went through and the helicopter made regular rounds of the shelter airdropping food and other basic needs. Women were given the responsibility to look after the orphans, while the men arranged food and materials for the shelter.
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?
Do you think Prashant is a good leader? Do you think young people can get together to help people during natural calamities?
Why do Prashant and other volunteers resist the plan to set up institutions for orphans and widows? What alternatives do they consider?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
Lushkoff is earning thirty five roubles a month. How is he obliged to Sergei for this?
Do you think the feeling of depression Johnsy has is common among teenagers?
Who is the real culprit according to the king? Why does he escape punishment?
Why does he break down in tears after the fire?
How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway? What effect does he want to create in his listeners?
Why is the author deeply embarrassed the next day in school? Which words show his fear and insecurity?
Can you think of some other ending for the story?
What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
Why does the author say that Iswaran seemed to more than make up for the absence of a TV in Mahendra’s living quarters?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?