Questions

Mahabharata war lasted for ____ days.

Which South Korean author in May 2016 won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel 'The Vegetarian'?

Which of the following is the official emblem for the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games?

Shahjahan was the _____Mughal ruler.

While selling a shirt, a shopkeeper gives a discount of 7%. If he gives discount of 9% he earns Rs. 15 less on profit. The market price of the shirt is :­

Who is the author of the book titled 'Citizen and Society'?

Which Indian actor won the Ordre des Arts et des Letters (Order of Arts and Letters) from the French Government in 2016?

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffee pot and hear the birds sing in one's own way, and not the way one was taught. It may be assumed on good grounds that seeing and hearing have a different quality for infants than for grownups and that they are more aesthetic and less intellectual in the first years of life. A little boy sees and hears birds with delight. Then the 'good father' comes along and feels he should 'share' the experience and help his son 'develop'. He says, "That's a jay and this is a sparrow." The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. He has to see and hear them the way his father wants him to. Father has good reasons on his side: since few people can afford to go through life listening to the birds sing, sooner the little boy starts his 'education' the better. Maybe he will be an ornithologist when he grows up.

What does the writer mean by 'awareness'?