Reading Comprehension - Inference Theme Main Idea Theme Main Idea question bank (Language I (English))

When I visited India again in 1945, the big change I noticed was the increased interest in politics. You cannot understand the modern Indians unless you realise that politics occupy them so passionately and constantly, that artistic problems, and even social problems- are subsidiary. Their attitude is ''first we must find the correct political solution and then we can deal with other matters'' I think the attitude is unsound, and used to say so; still, there it is, and they hold it much more vehemently than they did a quarter of a century ago. When I spoke about the necessity of form in literature and the importance of the individual vision, their attention wandered, although they listened politely. Literature, in their view, should expound or inspire a political creed.

Externally the place has not changed. It looks much as it did from the train. Outside the carriage windows (rather dirty windows) it unrolls as before - monotonous, enigmatic, and at moments sinister. And in some long motor drives which I look through the Deccan there were the same combinations of hills, rocks, bushes, ruins, dusty people and occasional yellow flowers. There is still poverty, and the malnutrition, which persists like a ground-swell beneath the pleasant froth of my immediate experience.

Industrialisation has increased though it does not dominate the landscape yet as it does in the west. No, externally India has not changed. And this changelessness in her is called by some observers ''the real India''. I don't myself like the phrase ''the real India''. I suspect it. It always makes me prick my ears.

When I visited India again in 1945, the big change I noticed was the increased interest in politics. You cannot understand the modern Indians unless you realise that politics occupy them so passionately and constantly, that artistic problems, and even social problems- are subsidiary. Their attitude is ''first we must find the correct political solution and then we can deal with other matters'' I think the attitude is unsound, and used to say so; still, there it is, and they hold it much more vehemently than they did a quarter of a century ago. When I spoke about the necessity of form in literature and the importance of the individual vision, their attention wandered, although they listened politely. Literature, in their view, should expound or inspire a political creed.

Externally the place has not changed. It looks much as it did from the train. Outside the carriage windows (rather dirty windows) it unrolls as before - monotonous, enigmatic, and at moments sinister. And in some long motor drives which I look through the Deccan there were the same combinations of hills, rocks, bushes, ruins, dusty people and occasional yellow flowers. There is still poverty, and the malnutrition, which persists like a ground-swell beneath the pleasant froth of my immediate experience.

Industrialisation has increased though it does not dominate the landscape yet as it does in the west. No, externally India has not changed. And this changelessness in her is called by some observers ''the real India''. I don't myself like the phrase ''the real India''. I suspect it. It always makes me prick my ears.