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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate option:
1. In the first week of June 1982, I began a secular pilgrimage deep into the Alakananda valley. My destination was Gopeshwar, a town that clings to a hill somewhat short of Badrinath, and the living deity I wished to pay tribute to was Chandi Prasad Bhatt, founder of the Chipko movement.
2. Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born in a family of priests who tended the temple of Rudranath. It is part of the 'Panch Kedar', the five Himalayan temples dedicated to Shiva, the most venerated of which is Kedarnath. As a boy, Chandi Prasad went up often to the family shrine, the journey also alerting him to local traditions of folk ecology. When he walked through the alpine pasture he had to take off his shoes so as not to harm flowers. In one four kilometer stretch above the Amrit Ganga, there was a ban on spitting, coughing and pissing: on anything at all that might cause pollution in the river below. There were taboos on plucking plants before the festival of Nandasthmi in September.
3. Once, on the walk to Rudranath, Chandi Prasad met a shepherd burning the flowers of the sacred and beautiful brahmakamal. He asked why, it being the week of Nandashtami, and the shepherd answered that he wouldn't have, normally, except his stomach ached horribly and the extract of the flower would cure him. But, the offender quickly added, he had broken off the plant with his mouth, like a sheep, so that the deity would think it nature's natural order rather than the hand of man at work. He acquired such informal education in ecology. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union(GMOU) as a booking clerk. With the GMOU he was posted up and down the Alakananda villages. He says, his years selling bus tickets alerted him to the social diversity of India.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate option:
1. In the first week of June 1982, I began a secular pilgrimage deep into the Alakananda valley. My destination was Gopeshwar, a town that clings to a hill somewhat short of Badrinath, and the living deity I wished to pay tribute to was Chandi Prasad Bhatt, founder of the Chipko movement.
2. Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born in a family of priests who tended the temple of Rudranath. It is part of the 'Panch Kedar', the five Himalayan temples dedicated to Shiva, the most venerated of which is Kedarnath. As a boy, Chandi Prasad went up often to the family shrine, the journey also alerting him to local traditions of folk ecology. When he walked through the alpine pasture he had to take off his shoes so as not to harm flowers. In one four kilometer stretch above the Amrit Ganga, there was a ban on spitting, coughing and pissing: on anything at all that might cause pollution in the river below. There were taboos on plucking plants before the festival of Nandasthmi in September.
3. Once, on the walk to Rudranath, Chandi Prasad met a shepherd burning the flowers of the sacred and beautiful brahmakamal. He asked why, it being the week of Nandashtami, and the shepherd answered that he wouldn't have, normally, except his stomach ached horribly and the extract of the flower would cure him. But, the offender quickly added, he had broken off the plant with his mouth, like a sheep, so that the deity would think it nature's natural order rather than the hand of man at work. He acquired such informal education in ecology. He joined the Garhwal Motor Owners Union(GMOU) as a booking clerk. With the GMOU he was posted up and down the Alakananda villages. He says, his years selling bus tickets alerted him to the social diversity of India.
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