- Read the following epistolary communication between M. K. Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore by using the KWL (Know, Want to Know, Learned) method of reading:
Motihari,
21 january 1918
Dear Gurudev,
For my forthcoming address before the Hindi Sammelan at Indore, I am trying to collect the opinions of leaders of thought on the following questions:
(i) Is not Hindi (as bhasha or Urdu) the only possible national language for inter-provincial intercourse and for all other national proceedings ?
(ii) Should not Hindi be the language principally used at the forthcoming Congress ?
(iii) Is it not desirable and possible to give the highest teaching in our schools and colleges through the vernaculars ? And should not Hindi be made a compulsory second language in all our post-primary schools ?
I feel that if we are to touch the masses and if national servants are to come in contact with the masses all over India, the questions set forth above have to be immediately solved and ought to be treated as of the utmost urgency. Will you kindly favour me with your reply, at your early convenience?
I am
Yours sincerely,
M. K. Gandhi
Dear Mr. Gandhi,
I can only answer in the affirmative the question you have sent to me from Motihari. Of course, Hindi is a possible national language for interprovincial intercourse in India. But, about its introduction at the Congress, I think we cannot enforce it for a long time to come. In the first place, it is truly a foreign language for the Madras people, and in the second, most of our politicians will find it extremely difficult to express themselves adequately in a language for no fault of their own. The difficulty will be not only for want of practice but also because political habits have naturally taken from in our minds in English. So, Hindi will have to remain optional in our national proceedings until a new generation of politicians fully alive to its importance pave the way towards its general use by constant practice as a voluntary acceptance of a national obligation.
Yours very sincerely,
Rabindranath Tagore
(Source: The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters & Debates between Gandhi & Tagore, 1915-1941, pp. 44-45)
2. Answer the following questions:
(a) Who created the Johari Window ?
(b) What are the reference initials in letter writing ? Give an example also.
(c) What is the name of the barrier to listening that might or might not be related to the domain of justice ?
(d) What is the rule of the Past Perfect Continuous Tense that you learned in the class ?
(e) What is the context in communication ?
3. Write an essay on a topic of your own choice.
4. Complete the sentences by appropriately filling the blanks with articles/tenses (forms of verbs/helping verb etc.)/narration (reported speech/direct and indirect speech) or active and passive voices.
(a) ____ the Russian Federation not been ____ (deny) the international allegations and condemnation at the United Nations since it invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022 ?
(b) ___ pregnant female polar bear goes into hibernation in a snow burrow during ____ winter season. When ____ bear comes out, its cubs are vulnerable to predatory attacks.
(c) The Mount Everest ____ (climb) up for the first time ____ Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953.
(d) Sunita asked Ramesh ____ “Do you speak English ?”
(e) Liberal democracies in the contemporary world are ____ (threaten) by kleptocrats.
5. What do you understand by communication skills ? Discuss.
6. As a Customer Care Executive in an MNC, write a letter as a response to a customer’s complaint about one of your company’s products. Also, take it as an opportunity to inform the customer about the announcement of a new product through a brochure.