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Question Numbers: 68-75
Instructions: Read the following passage and answer the questions.
Namita Gokhale's latest novel reminds us of the human cost of the pandemic, lest we forget.
"What did the virus look like?" Matangi-Ma, the blind matriarch and the central character of Namita Gokhale's novel wonders, "Did the virus have feelings? Was it angry with the world ?" As we grapple with the uncertainities created by another variant of the corona virus, her question's seem opposite. The pandemic has warped our sense of time and space. While the days drag, months fly by. The holiday paradox explains this distortion in time perception the fewer the memories from a period, the shorter its remembered duration. The scant number of experiences for some of us during the lockdown has made us think of them as interludes, brief periods of in convenience to be skimmed over. The Blind matriarch stops us in our tracks. It is a reminder of the human cost of the last two years, lest we forget.
Instructions: Read the following passage and answer the questions.
Namita Gokhale's latest novel reminds us of the human cost of the pandemic, lest we forget.
"What did the virus look like?" Matangi-Ma, the blind matriarch and the central character of Namita Gokhale's novel wonders, "Did the virus have feelings? Was it angry with the world ?" As we grapple with the uncertainities created by another variant of the corona virus, her question's seem opposite. The pandemic has warped our sense of time and space. While the days drag, months fly by. The holiday paradox explains this distortion in time perception the fewer the memories from a period, the shorter its remembered duration. The scant number of experiences for some of us during the lockdown has made us think of them as interludes, brief periods of in convenience to be skimmed over. The Blind matriarch stops us in our tracks. It is a reminder of the human cost of the last two years, lest we forget.
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