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UNIT TEN

DESCRIBING EVENTS

Reading
Curriculum Development Centre
A. Engage yourself

Read the sayings given below, and discuss the questions in a group.
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

Rudyard Kipling
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Martin Luther King
a. What do these proverbs mean?
b. Look at the title of the text given below. Can you guess what the text is
about?
B. Study time CDC

Here is an extract of Barbara Nimri Aziz’s article “Yogamaya: Poet,
Teacher, Insurgent” from Heir to a Silent Song: Two Rebel Women of Nepal.
Read the extract, and do the activities that follows.

Yogamaya: Poet, Teacher, Insurgent
“Yogmaya had a two-pronged agenda,
not just one,” explained Manamaya. “Her

¿rst target was the cultural and religious
oppression of the time. Her second object
was our ruler, the Prime Minister, who along
with his generals allowed corruption and
inequality to prevail. Our master, Shakti
Yogmaya, showed us how these two evils are
intertwined, and she feared neither.”

Yogamaya launched a brilliant and a daring
political campaign from her base in the hills
of East Nepal. It took place during the 1930s,
and ended in 1940 with her death, along with
sixty eight of her followers who one by one
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