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[/passage-header]Parth S. Sutaria, 44 Panvel, Mumbai
The day that was: July 26, 2005
Awarded for: Drawing a flood-trapped family to safety
The rain refused to let up. The ground-floor of the building, inside the ONGC colony at Panvel, was already flooded with water and the level was rising by the minute. At 7 P.M., the power went off, plunging the entire area into darkness. By that time, the water had risen from ground level to a height of five feet. Parth and his mother were busy packing, afraid that they might have to vacate their first floor flat too. His father, a finance manager with ONGC, was stuck on this way home. Suddenly they heard screams and banging. Parth rushed downstairs and waded through the water - neck-deep by this time - towards the ground-floor flat. Their door, he found out, was stuck and with the water-level rising alarmingly, the trapped family faced an ominous future. Parth found a piece of log from a neighbour and began to hammer on the door. "People from the entire building had come down, but just stood paralyzed," he says. After a while, the mesh gave way but the main door still wouldn't open. By this time the water came almost up to his mouth. "I don't remember anything," he says, "just that door and the children crying inside, and that I had to get them out." After many more heaves, the top half splintered and fell through. The family was pulled out to safety. Not surprisingly, it is the army and its spirit of service that he admires the most.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today's kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable. So toy design has to be conscious about ethics and values and also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play, fun is what makes them come back for more; makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness. Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicrafts industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna- a town near Bangalore. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs based on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today's kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable. So toy design has to be conscious about ethics and values and also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play, fun is what makes them come back for more; makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness. Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicrafts industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna- a town near Bangalore. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs based on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.

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[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question given below it:[/passage-header]I expect we named it Hariya because of its bright green plumage, and it became a family pet. A cage more to protect Hariya from predators than to keep him imprisoned. In fact, we often let him out of his cage, so he could fly away if he wanted to. Hariya just didn't seem to want to. It was only after many days that we realized that he had never shown an urge to fly.

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[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question given below it:[/passage-header]I expect we named it Hariya because of its bright green plumage, and it became a family pet. A cage more to protect Hariya from predators than to keep him imprisoned. In fact, we often let him out of his cage, so he could fly away if he wanted to. Hariya just didn't seem to want to. It was only after many days that we realized that he had never shown an urge to fly.

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[/passage-header]The next day, to my surprise, his photograph was published again, this time with an interview. With growing interest, I learned that Hanumanthappa was a coolie's son and the oldest of five children. They belonged to a tribal group. He was unable to study further, he said in the interview because he lived in a village and his father, the sole breadwinner, earned only Rs. 40 a day. I felt sorry for this bright boy. Most of us send our children to tuitions and to coaching classes, we buy them reference books and guides and provide the best possible facilities for them without considering the cost. But it was different for Hanumanthappa. He had excelled in spite of being denied some of the basic necessities of life.

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