Grade 12 Compulsory English
Hurried Trip To Avoid a Bad Star
(Q) How is Karnali linked economically with the low land regions to the south?
-Geographically, Karnali lies to the northern part of our kingdom. As it is made up of very sloppy hills, there are many problems. People do not have transportation and other facilities for their better survival. There is no sufficient cultivable land. So, they have to depend on the lowland regions to the south.
People of karnali cannot sell their products in their localities. To sell their items like medicinal herbs, silajit, hashish, hand-knit sweaters and blankets, they have to go to Nepalgunj. Similarly, they cannot buy goods in their places. For this purpose also, they have to depend upon lowland regions. People of Karnali have to depend upon lowland region for their jobs also. Being undeveloped part, it does not have factories. To earn livelihood, young people have no better options than leaving their places and working in the lowland region.
(Q)What did the two writers learn about the life and culture of the people of the Karnali region during their journey on foot?
- ‘Hurried Trip to Avoid a Bad Star” is written by American geographers M. Lilla and C. Bishop Barry. Their essay presents social, economic and educational aspects of Karnali region. To present these aspects, they have brought four events in the text- their meeting with a chhetri woman and the people processing silajit, and their encounter cutting down trees and the people of Karnali buying and selling things. The two writers learnt that the people of Karnali are innocent, simple, laborious and uneducated. Their world is narrow and limited. The Chhetri woman asks the travelers to find her husband and send him to the village. They live in geographically difficult part completely depending on their own or animal strength. They are ignorant about soil erosion and deforestation. Not only that, alcohol consumption in Karnali region is high because one of the porters buys distillery equipments in the bazaar of Nepalgunj. He hopes that he would sell liqueur and earn enough money to buy goods in Karnali.
Thank you for the answers.
ReplyDeleteWhy were the travellers going to nepalgunj what did they carried?
ReplyDeleteIts really fun to hear this kind of questions to be honest..😀
DeleteAs the travellers are there to explore the karnali zone and the lifestyle of people, what can we expect from them?
They are going to Nepalgunj in order to find out that , what karnali people do and face in the journey ...
As they were there for exploration they obviously have taken some essential materials to pick up the various findings ..
Non the less, the carried food for them, helped others by carrying some amount of good of karnali's people.