Passages with Solved Precis “It would be fundamentally wrong to enter military alliances or allow India’s defence to be under-written by any other country. That would mean losing our self-respect. All the aircraft of the world cannot take the place of a stout people determined to resist… There have been changes in the cold war pattern, cracking of alliances both among Western nations and Communist countries and Sino-Soviet differences are deeper...

Passages with Solved Precis “It seems to me that the time is now ripe to put an end to nuclear tests once and for all-to put a full stop. Now is the most suitable time to do it.”  “The period of great acuteness and tension in the Caribbean is over. Now we are free directly to deal with other urgent international questions and in particular with the long outstanding problem… of...

Passages with Solved Precis “For international order and security, it is essential to fulfil certain conditions. In the first place, Imperialism in many forms must be abolished. For Imperialism is the source of unjust oppression of one race by another. The persecution of the Arabs in Algeria and of the people of Cyprus in that island are living examples of this fact. The danger of war will not be over so...

Passages with Solved Precis The last ball has been bowled, the bats have been oiled and put away, and around Lord’s the grand-stands are deserted and forlorn. We have said farewell to cricket. We have said farewell, too to cricket’s king. The well graced actor leaves the stage and becomes only a memory in a world of happy memories. And so ‘hats off to the Jam Sahib the prince of a...

Passages with Solved Precis In the competition of life he wins who can do the largest amount of work: in the shortest space of time. That is why men use tools, which make one pair of hands do the work of five or ten. The savage who scratches the earth with his bare hands has to give way to the man who drives the plough. It is not his physical strength...

Passages with Solved Precis Although, Tipu had long been recognised as successor to his father and ascended the throne without opposition, it was still the throne of a usurper. For the maintenance of his authority, it was necessary to support a greater military establishment than the revenues of the country could afford and the expedient with naturally presented itself was an extension to territory. Of his actual possessions, too, much had...

Passages with Solved Precis “The great advantage of early rising is the good start it gives us in our day’s work. The early riser has done a large amount of hard work before other men have got out of bed. In the early morning the mind is fresh, and there are few sounds or other distractions, so that work done at that time is generally well done. In many cases the...

Passages with Solved Precis “It is the height of selfishness for men, who fully appreciate in their own case the great advantage of a good education, to deny these advantages to women. There is no valid argument by which the exclusion of the female sex from the privilege of education can be defended. It is argued that women have their domestic duties to perform and that, if they were educated, they...