Understanding Diversity
QUESTIONS
1. Draw up a list of the different festivals celebrated in your locality.
Which of these celebrations are shared by members of different
regional and religious communities?
2. What do you think living in India with its rich heritage of diversity
adds to your life?
3. Do you think the term “unity in diversity” is an appropriate term
to describe India? What do you think Nehru is trying to say about
Indian unity in the sentence quoted above from his book The
Discovery of India?
4. Underline the line in the poem sung after the Jallianwala Bagh
massacre, which according to you, reflects India’s essential unity.
5. Choose another region in India and do a similar study of the
historical and geographical factors that influence the diversity found
there. Are these historical and geographical factors connected to
each other? How?
