1. What were Pandit Nehru’s cell
companions?
Pandit Nehru was given company by
various insects both small and big, animals of different types, reptiles, and
creepers etc at various places he was shifted. Starting from his fourteen and a
half month passed at the Dehra Dun Gaol, he was given company by mouths, wasp,
hornets, bed bugs, flies mosquitoes etc. while the other insects that were
companions of Nehru were the white-ants, and the lizards creeping for prey on
walls of the cell. Sometimes the companions like the scorpions, the snakes, and
the centipedes were not liked by Pandit Nehru.
Thus Pandit Nehru was given company by the various kinds of insects,
animals and birds.
2.
What privilege was most valued by Pandit Nehru?
When Pandit Nehru was at the Dehra Dun
Goal, the Goal was a small place and the prisoners were kept in an old lock-up
outside the goal-walls, but within the goal compound. This place was small that
there was no room to walk about in it and so the prisoners were allowed every
morning and evening to take walk to and fro in front of the gate. It was a
distance of about a hundred yards and this let prisoners to come outside the
walls of there tiny cells. There was the only time when they were able to view
the mountains, fields and a public road which was at a distance. It was the
only time when the prisoner was allowed to release and have some interaction
with nature. This privilege was most valued by Pandit Nehru.
3. What sight did Pandit Nehru like best of
all?
(March 2007)
At the Dehra Dun Gaol, Pandit Nehru and
other prisoners were allowed for a walk out side in the compound because the
size of the cell they were kept in was a bit small and compact. This was the
only time when they were able to view the mountains, fields and also to
interact with nature. But during the rains most prisoners gave up the walk and
Pandit Nehru was not one of them. Indeed, he would walk in ankle-deep water in
order to see the incredible beauty of the Himalaya, which was near by. It
helped Nehru a lot to forget the weariness of prison. From the cell he could
not have a view of mountain, but in his mind the image was very clear. He was
ever conscious of their nearness and a secret intimacy graved between them.
Nehru loved these sights of Himalayas the most.
4. What was the disadvantage of the
monsoon?
The monsoon is always welcomed in our
country as it is the ending of summer heat. But Dehra Dun was one of the
favoured haunts of the rain god as due to its geographical position. Within the
first five or sixty weeks of the break of monsoon, it would pour 50-60 inches of water in the
form of rain. Due to this heavy rain, the prisoners were not allowed to come
out. It was not pleasant to sit cooped up in a little narrow place trying to
avoid the water dripping from the ceiling or rushing in from the windows. Thus
monsoon made the life of the prisoners somewhat disturbed and wet. This was the
disadvantage of the monsoon.
5. Why did the prisoner so often observe
the small animals around them? (October-07)
The prison is the place, where the
person is kept in order to make realize he is prisoner and made isolated from
the world by the law. In the prison, there are no daily normal activities. The prisoners
suffer emotional difficulties. There are only loneliness and wariness and the
prisoner has not pile of time, but nothing to do by doing so they are made
conscious of the sin done by him and in such cases they become more observant
of nature. They watch all the various animals and insects that come his way. In
this way, they tries to make them involved in nature and also to let to
interact with its. Thus during the prison period, due to the loneliness and
weariness the prisoners often observes the small animals around them.
6. What event shows Pandit Nehru’s love for
small animals?
When Pandit Nehru was Lucknow Goal and
the trees inside of the compound of Goal were ruled and crowded by squirrels.
One day When Nehru was sitting under a tree, a squirrel came, climbed up his
leg and sat on his knee having a look round. Then when it gazed into Nehru’s
eyes, it realized that it was not sitting on a branch of tree. Fear disabled it
for a moment and it scamper away in a second. This event shows Nehru’s love for
small animals.
7. How did the parent monkey show its
reckless courage? (March
2006)
There was a large colony of monkeys at
Bareilly Gaol. Once a baby monkey went
into their barrack enclosure and could not climb the wall again. The warder,
convict overseers and other prisoners caught him and tied a string round his
neck. The parents of the bady monkey were keeping a eagle eye on them and their
anger was at boiling point. Suddenly one
of them charged, jumped down and attacked almost everyone in the crowd which
surrounded the baby. Due to this brave reckless act by the parent’s monkey, the
baby was saved and rescued. While the crowd went away frightened, leaving their
sticks.
8. What creature did Pandit Nehru dislike
the most?
There were three creatures that Nehru
disliked the most. First was the scorpions that frequently were found his cell,
especially after a thunder storm. But it never stung him. Second was the snake
that were also joined in and near by the cell of prisoners, but it never
terrorized Nehru. While the third was the centipedes that horrified much more
than the former two. He woke in the middle of the night and felt something
crawling his foot. He pressed a torch he had and saw a centipede on the bed. Instinctively
and with amazing rapidity he vaulted clear out of that bed and nearly hit the
cell wall. The centipedes were disliked the most.
9.
How does Pandit Nehru show that worship and kindness
do not always go together?
Pandit Nehru shows that worship and
kindness do not always go side by side with the appropriate example of cow.
According to Nehru, Indians believe in general philosophy of non- violence to
them. Indians do not approve of animals as household pets. But on the whole we
are careless and unkind to them. The cow is favoured animal which is worshipped
by many Hindus and it also often causes riots. So on one hand we are worshiping
it and on the other we are not kind enough towards cow and this must no happen.
10. What does Pandit Nehru say about peoples
and their patron animals? (October-06)
Pandit Nehru provides a keen and deep
understanding on the subject of patron animals adopted by different. The patron
animals are adopted to symbolize nation’s ambition and character. e.g. the
eagle of the United States of America and Germany, the lion and bulldog of
England, the fighting-cock of France, the bear of old Russia. Most of them are
very aggressive and fighting animals, and they mould national character of the
nation. This creates an adverse effect in the minds of the people who grow up
with these examples before them. Talking of Hindus consider them mild and
non-violent as cow is the patron animal of Hindu.
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