1. Whose name was missing from the sketches of the making of the Constitution? 2. Where was the dream written?

Question

Read the following passages.

Some of you may have noticed a name missing from the sketches of the makers of the Constitution: Mahatma Gandhi. He was not a member of the Constituent Assembly. Yet there were many members who followed his vision. Writing in the magazine Young India in 1931, he had spelt out what he wanted the Constitution to do:

I shall strive for a Constitution which will release India from all thraldom and patronage… I shall work for an India in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country in whose making they have an effective voice; an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people; an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony. There can be no room in such an India for the curse of untouchability or the curse of the intoxicating drinks and drugs. Women will enjoy the same rights as men… I shall be satisfied with nothing else. – Mahatma Gandhi

Now answer the following questions :

1. Whose name was missing from the sketches of the making of the Constitution?

2. Where was the dream written?

3. Whose dream was this?

4. There can be no room in such an India for the curse of ———–, ———– and ———–.

5. ———– will enjoy the same rights as men.

Answer 1

1) The sketch of Mahatma Gandhi.

2) In a magazine called ‘Young India’.

3) This was the dream of Mahatma Gandhiji.

4) Untouchability, drinks, drugs

5) Women.