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SAROJINI NAIDU
Sarojini Naidu, a great leader, poet, feminist and
political activist born on 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad. She topped the
matriculation examination at Madras University when she was 12 years old. At
the age of 16, she wrote a play titled 'Maher Muneer' which earned her a
scholarship to study abroad at King’s College, London and later at Girton
College, Cambridge.
She was a part of the Women's Suffrage Movement in
England. She came back to India and initiated into the Indian Freedom Struggle
by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. In 1921, she was one of the first to join Gandhi's
Non-Cooperation Movement, against the Rowlatt Act. She became the President of
Indian National Congress in 1925. She played a vital role in the Civil
Disobedience movement as well as Quit India movement. She was jailed along with
Mahatma Gandhi and others. She is credited for inspiring the women of India to
participate in the freedom struggle and bringing them out of the kitchen. She
travelled around the country delivering speeches on independence, youth
welfare, women's rights and nationalism. Many of her literary works such as The
Golden Threshold, The Bird Of Time, The Broken Wing, Autumn Song have been read
widely. Her valuable contribution to poetry earned her the sobriquet of ‘The
Nightingale of India’.
After India gained freedom, Sarojini became the first
woman to become the Governor of United Province of Agra and Oudh (presently
Uttar Pradesh). Naidu suffered a heart attack when she was in office and died
on March 2, 1949 at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.
LIBERALISM
Liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting
and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of
politics. Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect
individuals from being harmed by others, but they also recognize that
government itself can pose a threat to liberty. As the revolutionary American
pamphleteer Thomas Paine expressed it in Common Sense (1776), government is at
best “a necessary evil.” Laws, judges, and police are needed to secure the
individual’s life and liberty, but their coercive power may also be turned
against him. The problem, then, is to devise a system that gives government the
power necessary to protect individual liberty but also prevents those who
govern from abusing that power. The problem is compounded when one asks whether
this is all that government can or should do on behalf of individual freedom.
Some liberals—the so-called neoclassical liberals, or libertarians—answer that
it is. Since the late 19th century, however, most liberals have
insisted that the powers of government can promote as well as protect the
freedom of the individual. According to modern liberalism, the chief task of
government is to remove obstacles that prevent individuals from living freely
or from fully realizing their potential. Such obstacles include poverty,
disease, discrimination, and ignorance. The disagreement among liberals over
whether government should promote individual freedom rather than merely protect
it is reflected to some extent in the different prevailing conceptions of
liberalism in the United States and Europe since the late 20th
century. In the United States liberalism is associated with the welfare-state
policies of the New Deal program of the Democratic administration of Pres.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whereas in Europe it is more commonly associated with a
commitment to limited government and laissez-faire.
KNOW YOUR DAYS
August
21-National Senior Citizens Day:
National Senior Citizens Day recognizes the
achievements of the more mature representatives of our nation. It provides an
opportunity to show our appreciation for their dedication, accomplishments, and
services they give throughout their lives.
August 22-Ganesh Chaturthi:
It is a festival celebrating
the arrival of Lord Ganesh to earth from Kailash Parvat with his mother Goddess
Parvati. The festival is marked with the installation of Ganesh clay idols.
August 26-Women’s Equality Day:
It is celebrated in the United States to commemorate
the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which
prohibits the Government from denying the right to vote to citizens on the
basis of sex.
INTERESTING FACTS
1.The gap between conversation responses typically
lasts 200 milliseconds.
2.Wimbledon tennis balls are all stored at perfect room
temperature.
3.Every day we take about 22,000 breaths.
READING MATTERS
The Silent Patient
A woman who murders her own husband by shooting him six times in his
face and never speaks a word for about 5 years, a determined psychotherapist
who wants to unravel this mystery and get her to talk......Thrilling
right? If anyone wants to pick up a page
turner which should make you intrigued, catch up the book " The Silent
Patient". This book is a debut suspense psychological thriller by Alex
Michaelide. It's not just an investigation but it's about unravelling a mind of
a mysterious woman.
A tantalizing one!
KINDLE YOUR BRAIN
1)The
average weight of 8 men increases by 2.5 kg when a new mam replaces one of the
old man weighing 65 kg. Find the weight of the new man.
A)20
B)85
C)67
D)80
2)The
captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper
is three years older than the captain. If the ages of the captain and the
wicket keeper are excluded, the average age of the remaining players of the
team is one year less than the average age of whole team. What is the average
age of the team?
A)19
B)49
C)17
D)23
3)The
radius of road roller is 1 metre and length is 7/22 metre when it is rolled on
a ground. The roller rolls 500 times to level the ground. But it was found that
on 5% of the ground, the roller rolled twice. What is the total area of the
ground?
A)1000/π²
m²
B)975√π
m²
C)975
m²
D)950
m²
4)The
height of a room to its semi-perimeter is 2:5. It costs Rs.260 to paper the
walls of the room with paper 50 cm wide at Rs.2 per metre allowing an area of
15 cm² for doors and windows. The height of the room is
A)2.6
m
B)3.9
m
C)4
m
D)4.2
m
5)In
a game of 80 points, A can give 5 points to B and 15 points to C. How many
points B can give to C in a game of 60?
A)6
B)7
C)8
D)10
ANSWER FOR LAST WEEK QUESTIONS
1)Answer:
Option(A) 150 metre
Solution:
Let
the length of the train be x metre.
Given:
x:(x+100) = 15:25
x:(x+100)
= 3:5
5x
= 3x+300
Therefore,
x = 150 metre
2)Answer:
Option(A) 60
Solution:
Let
the capacity of bucket P = x
Then,
capacity of bucket Q = x/3
Given
that it takes 80 turns for bucket P to fill the empty drum.
So,
capacity of the drum = 80x
Number
of turns required if both P and Q are used having each turn together
=
(80x)/[x+(x/3)] = (240x)/(3x+x) = 240/4 = 60 turns.
3)
Answer: Option(C) 4 minutes
Solution:
Speed
of the boat in still water = 8 km/hr
Speed
upstream = 1 km/hr
Speed
of the stream = 8-1 = 7 km/hr
Speed
downstream = 8+7 = 15 km/hr
Time
taken to travel 1 km downstream = (1/15) hr = (1×60)/15 = 4 minutes
4)Answer:
Option(B) 16 km
Solution:
Let
the time in which he travelled on foot = x hr
Then
the time in which he travelled on bicycle = (9-x) hr
Distance
= speed × time
4x+9(9-x)
= 61
4x+81-9x
= 61
5x
= 20
x
= 4 hr
Distance
travelled on foot = 4x = 4×4 = 16 km
5)Answer:
Option(A) Saturday
Solution:
Clearly
it can be understood that 9 days ago it was a Thursday.
Number
of odd days in 9 days = 2 (9-7 = 2) Reduced to perfect multiple of 7
Hence today = Thursday + 2 odd days = Saturday.
ARTISTIC ZONE
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