Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order. A. Here, the picture-perfect French Quarter and heritage laden Tamil streets blend into one another. B. Across many metropolitan cities, there exists a visible conflict in how the old and the new coexist. C. The old and new, like two different worlds, surviving side by side yet never crossing that chasm. D. However, Puducherry stands as a striking exception, where these very contrasts are celebrated rather than endured.

Correct — D. B opens with the general picture: across many metropolitan cities there is 'a visible conflict in how the old and the new coexist'.

D must follow B. Its However and 'these very contrasts' both point back to that conflict, and D names Puducherry as the exception.

A must follow D: its Here needs a place, and Puducherry has just been named.

C closes with the old and new 'surviving side by side' → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  ABCD — Opens with Here, which has no place to point to: Puducherry is not named until D. A must come after the sentence that names the place.
• (b)
  DABC — Opens with However, contrasting with nothing, and 'these very contrasts' has no earlier contrast to refer to. D needs B before it.
• (c)
  BACD — After B, Here would have to mean 'many metropolitan cities', yet A describes one town's French Quarter and Tamil streets. The town must be named first, in D.

Settle a para-jumble by its fixed links before judging the loose sentences.

Pointing words such as here, these and such need an earlier sentence that names what they point to. Contrast connectors such as however need an earlier claim to turn against.

Here the links are B → D (However, these contrasts) and D → A (Here = Puducherry). The paragraph moves from the general (many cities) to the exception (Puducherry) to detail about the exception.

Key facts

• However contrasts with a claim already made, so it cannot open a four-sentence jumble.
• Here, these and such point back to something already named.
• This paragraph runs general claim, then its exception, then detail about the exception.

Common traps

• Opening with D because it names Puducherry — its However needs a claim before it
• Putting A straight after B — Here would then point to many cities, not to Puducherry

No directly related past PYQ was found.