Unit-1, Lesson-1
Question no.2 & 3 (Flow Chart & Summary Writing)
Read the following text and make a flow chart showing the tragic condition of Bengali people under Pakistani rulers. (No. 1 has been done for you.)
We were to sit in the National Assembly, draft a constitution for ourselves there and build our country; the people of this land would thereby get economic, political and cultural freedom. But it is with regret that I have to report to you today that we have passed through twenty three tragic years; Bengal’s history of those years is full of stories of torture inflicted on our people, of bloodshed by them repeatedly. Twenty three years of a history of men and women in agony! The history of Bengal is the history of a people who have repeatedly made their highways crimson with their blood. We shed blood in 1952; even though we were the victors in the elections of 1954 we could not form a government then. In 1958 Ayub Khan declared Martial Law to enslave us for the next ten years. In 1966 when we launched the six point movement our boys were shot dead on 7 June. When after the movement of 1969 Ayub Khan fell from power and Yahya Khan assumed the reins of the government he declared that he would give us a constitution and restore democracy; we listened to him then. A lot has happened since and elections have taken place.
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Write a summary of the following text.
Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to a multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around the world. Imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against white minority rule, Mandela never lost his resolve to fight for his people’s emancipation. He was determined to bring down apartheid while avoiding a civil war. His prestige and charisma helped him win the support of the world.
“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I will fight it now and will do so until the end of my days,” Mandela said in his acceptance speech on becoming South Africa’s first black president in 1994. “The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.”
Ans: Nelson Mandela freed South Africa from the chain of apartheid that was an impediment on the way to peace among people of that country. Throughout his struggles for justice, he underwent sufferings of different kinds. Yet he never lost his firm determination to ensure his people’s emancipation. He became successful in his mission of defeating apartheid avoiding a civil war. Moreover, he got support from the world in his struggle against race discrimination that he intensely hated lifelong.
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