Q39: GOA Prelims 2022 Screening Test: Previous Year Question with Answer

Read the following passage and answer the questions below: Tradition means those ways of thinking and feeling which have come down to us from the past. We still have tremendous faith in the power of goodness. This again has nothing to do with religion. A national leader appealed to a group of dacoits of Madhya Pradesh, to give up their criminal lives and start afresh. One by one, they came and laid down their arms. They did not surrender to force but to goodness. This took place in the year 1972, but it could easily be a legend of ancient times. Many people say such a thing could not have happened anywhere else in the world today. Happiness of this kind tells us that ours is a living and growing tradition. It is still taking in new influences and merging them with the old. If this stops, Indian tradition itself will die. As per the passage, Indian culture continues to live on and grow over the centuries because