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Kathmandu
What does the flute music remind Vikram Seth? Why?
The flute reminds Vikram Seth that the flute music is the most universal. The music of various kinds of flutes has a definite similarity. Therefore, it reminds him of the commonality of the mankind. It also reminds him of the human voice as both use the living-breath as the motive force and has to pause and breathe at intervals.
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(a) Why is the writer unable to tear himself away from the square?
(b) Why does the writer consider flute music ‘the most universal’?
(c) Find a word from the passage which means ‘harmony’.
How does the narrator describe Kathmandu?
How does Vikram Seth describe the Hindu temple?
How does Vikram Seth describe the Buddhist shrine of Kathmandu?
What is the belief associated with the half-immersed shrine in the river Bagmati ? What does it tell us?
What attracts Vikram Seth’s attention in the square? Why?
What differentiates the flute-seller from other hawkers and vendors?
How does the flute music affect the narrator?
What does the flute music remind Vikram Seth? Why?
How has the Kathmandu trip changed Vikram Seth’s view?
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