CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Through the line ‘flute weaves its own associations’, Seth explains how the music from a flute brings the culture, tradition, and history that it is associated with. On the other hand, as Seth explains, music of a flute draws one into the universality of humanity.

Detailed explanation-2: -What draws the author to the music of the flute? Ans: The author finds a flute seller along with many other hawkers in a corner of the square near his hotel in Kathmandu.

Detailed explanation-3: -The flute reminds Vikram Seth that the flute music is the most universal. The music of various kinds of flutes has a definite similarity. Therefore, it reminds him of the commonality of the mankind.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mankind does not have multiple appearances and shapes. It is universal and cosmopolitan. Music soothes everyone’s heart irrespective of their caste, colour and creed. So the author says that to hear any flute is to be drawn into the commonality of all mankind. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: The author says that unlike other hawkers, the flute seller plays slowly without excessive display. He does not shout out his wares. Occasionally he makes a sale, but in a curiously offhanded way as if this were incidental to his enterprise.