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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

  1. Discuss in small groups taking off from points in the text.<br>
    Humour and criticism.
  2. Discuss in small groups taking off from points in the text.<br>
    Poetry and films.
  3. Discuss in small groups taking off from points in the text.<br>
    Film-production today has come a long way from the early days of the Gemini Studios.
  4. What do you understand about the author’s literary inclinations from the account?
  5. How does the author describe the incongruity of an English poet addressing the audience at Gemini Studios?
  6. Why was Kothamangalam Subbu considered No. 2 in Gemini Studios?
  7. The author has used gentle humour to point out human foibles. Pick out instances of this to show how this serves to make the piece interesting.
  8. Notice the use or non-use of the comma in the following sentences.<br>
    (a) When I first visited Gandhi in 1942 at his ashram in Sevagram, he told me what happened in Champaran.<br>
    (b) He had not proceeded far when the police superintendent’s messenger overtook him.<br>
    (c) When the court reconvened, the judge said he would not deliver the judgment for several days.
  9. Notice the sentences in the text which are in ‘direct speech’.<br>
    Why does the author use quotations in his narration?
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