‘Bharat Parv’ was organized by the Government of India during which of the following programmes? 1. Republic Day 2024 2. National Film Festival 2024 3. Cannes Film Festival 2024 Select the answer using the code given below:
- (a)1 and 2 only
- (b)2 and 3 only
- (c)1 and 3 only
- (d)1, 2 and 3
Correct — D, 1, 2 and 3. That is the answer carried for this paper, and this card must flag honestly that it does not survive checking on statement 2. Two of the three programmes are documented. Bharat Parv is the Republic Day festival that the Government of India stages on the Red Fort lawns and Gyan Path in New Delhi every January, with Republic Day tableaux, armed forces bands, state pavilions and food stalls, and it ran in that form in January 2024. Cannes is the newer one: at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024 India hosted a Bharat Parv for the first time, at the Bharat Pavilion inaugurated on 15 May 2024, where the poster and trailer of the 55th International Film Festival of India were unveiled. Statement 2 is the problem. No Bharat Parv at a 'National Film Festival 2024' can be traced, and several published solutions to this very question therefore stop at 1 and 3 only, which is option (c). Learn the two documented events and treat the third as open until the official key appears.
- (a)1 and 2 only — Drops Cannes, which is the best-documented new element in the question — India hosted a Bharat Parv at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, its first at that festival.
- (b)2 and 3 only — Drops Republic Day, which is where Bharat Parv began and where it is held every year at the Red Fort in New Delhi.
- (c)1 and 3 only — This is the reading that follows if statement 2 is treated as unsupported, and it is the option this card would reach on the evidence available; the answer carried for this paper takes all three instead. It is the honest alternative to hold in mind rather than a plain error.
Bharat Parv began in 2016 as a Republic Day-week festival of the Government of India, coordinated by the Ministry of Tourism, staged in the open ground around the Red Fort in New Delhi. It brings together the Republic Day tableaux after the parade, performances by the armed forces bands, craft and food pavilions from the states, and folk and tribal performances, with the stated aim of promoting domestic tourism and the idea of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat. The name has since been used for India's cultural showcases abroad as well.
The item is a good illustration of why an unreleased key matters. Two of the three programmes are easy to verify and one is not, and the difference between the two readings is a single statement. Approach it the way you would approach any list item: verify what you can, and see whether the verified part already picks out an option. Here it does not — 1 and 3 verified leaves both (c) and (d) alive, and only statement 2 separates them. Note also that Bharat Parv is a Ministry of Tourism festival at home, while the Cannes showcase was mounted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, so 'Bharat Parv' names an occasion rather than a single scheme.
- Bharat Parv has been held since 2016 during Republic Day week at the Red Fort in New Delhi, coordinated by the Ministry of Tourism.
- Its components include the Republic Day tableaux, armed forces band performances, state craft and food pavilions and folk performances.
- India hosted a Bharat Parv at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, the first time it did so at Cannes; the Bharat Pavilion there was inaugurated on 15 May 2024.
- At the Cannes Bharat Parv the poster and trailer of the 55th International Film Festival of India, held at Goa in November 2024, were unveiled.
- The Cannes showcase was mounted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, not by the Ministry of Tourism which runs the Republic Day festival.
Two elements can be documented, one cannot — and the whole item turns on the third.
- Assuming every statement in a list item must be true when the code offers an 'all of them' option; here one of the three cannot be sourced.
- Attributing every Bharat Parv to the Ministry of Tourism; the Cannes showcase was mounted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
- Confusing the International Film Festival of India at Goa with a 'National Film Festival'.
As a list item on where a government festival or campaign was held, with the code offering a subset and an all-of-them option.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Bharat Parv, held annually in New Delhi, is organised in connection with which one of the following occasions?
- (a)Independence Day
- (b)Republic Day
- (c)Gandhi Jayanti
- (d)Constitution Day
Answer(b) Republic Day — the festival is staged at the Red Fort during Republic Day week and displays the parade tableaux.
- practice — not a real PYQ
At the 77th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2024, India unveiled the poster and trailer of which one of the following events?
- (a)The 55th International Film Festival of India
- (b)The 70th National Film Awards
- (c)The Mumbai International Film Festival
- (d)The Kolkata International Film Festival
Answer(a) The 55th International Film Festival of India — unveiled at the Bharat Pavilion at Cannes, ahead of the Goa festival in November 2024.