CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -What were the things the writer bought from Kathmandu? Answer: The writer bought a bar of marzipan, a corn on the cob roasted in a charcoal brazier on the pavement and rubbed with salt, chilli powder and lemon, a couple of love story, comics and a Reader’s Digest.

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: -Kathmandu is vivid, mercenary, religious, with small shrines to flower-adorned deities along the narrowest and busiest streets; with fruit sellers, flute sellers, hawkers of postcards; shops selling Western cosmetics, film rolls and chocolate; or copper utensils and Nepalese antiques.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The author says that the atmosphere in Pashupatinath temple was an atmosphere of ‘febrile confusion’. He says that priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, cows, monkeys, pigeons and dogs can be seen roaming through the grounds.