What shocked Prashant? Why?
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What did Prashant see around him after the rain ? How did he feel then?
After the rain, Prashant saw a raging, deadly, brown sheet of water everywhere around him. A few fractured cement houses were the only things visible. Bloated animal carcasses and human corpses floated in the water. The trees including the huge ones had fallen down. Prashant felt worried about his family.
Natural calamities have become the order of the day. What is more important is how prepared we are to face these tragedies in our lives. Based on your reading of the story, write a paragraph on ‘Preparing the Community for a Natural Disaster.’
Based on your reading of the story, write a paragraph on the topic: ‘How to Help Each Other in the Event of a Natural Calamity?’
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others”, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
When the super cyclone hit Orissa, Prashant became a leader and rendered emergency services to hundreds of his villagers. Based on your reading of the chapter ‘Weathering the Storm in Ersama’, write a paragraph on the topic : ‘Adversity is a Better Teacher Than Good Fortune’.
How did Prashant escape the fate of his village people during the rain?
