Q1: UPPSC Mains 2020 General Hindi: Mains Question

Read the following prose-passage carefully and answer the questions that follow – "India is the widest workshop of Nature in the world. Nowhere else is there only one monotonous climatic line; there are mountains, rivers and countless waterfalls, and therefore the colour of Indian literature has always remained the same. Because it has accepted its natural and companionate relationship with Nature. The ancient Indian seers and poets accorded great importance to the sweetness and colour born of Nature’s stirrings. Modern rationality tells us that children must cooperate with, and feel, the movements of Nature; to watch the colours that arise in the water while standing on the bank; to see the clouds riding on the chariot of the wind – all this makes our sensitivity more intense. Indian Nature makes us alert towards the living world. It awakens the sensory system of man and, at the same time, Nature also flows on; its companionship is a symbol of man’s sensibility and beauty. Thus we see that the constant influence of Nature on human life is a tremendous source of inspiration; today, when the whole world is anxiously thinking about Nature, we have realised the importance of its humane and polite form ..." (Passage abridged). (a) Write the substance of the passage in your own words. (b) On the basis of the passage, explain clearly the mutual relationship between Man and Nature. (c) Explain the above passage in the light of ‘authorial style’.