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Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 5. A Roadside Stand [Removed] Summary, Explanation, Question Answers (NCERT Solutions)

A Roadside Stand (5. A Roadside Stand [Removed]) CBSE class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 5. A Roadside Stand [Removed] summary with detailed explanation of the lesson A Roadside Stand along with meanings of difficult words. Given here is the complete explanation of the lesson, along with summary, explanation and questions and answers of each topic of lesson 5. A Roadside Stand [Removed].

English Flamingo (Chapter 5. A Roadside Stand [Removed]) Solution
 Think It Out

3. The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.

Answer :


The poet criticizes the double standards of the government and other social service agencies who promise to improve the standard of living of the poor farmers and show them the rosy side of life. Yet, when the time comes to deliver their promise, they either forget them or fulfill them keeping in view their own benefits. The poet calls them “greedy good-doers” and “beneficent beasts of prey”, who “swarm over their lives”. The poet says that these greedy people make calculated and well thought-out shrewd moves, to which the innocent, unaware farmers fall prey. These humble and simple farmers are robbed of their peace of mind by these clever people. The poet says,
“…..enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way.”


All Questions of English Flamingo Chapter 5. A Roadside Stand [Removed]
Before You Read
Have you ever stopped at a roadside stand? What have you observed there?

Think It Out
1. The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?
2. What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
3. The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.
4. What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?
5. Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the rural poor?

Talk About It
Discuss in small groups.

The economic well-being of a country depends on a balanced development of the villages and the cities.

Try This Out
You could stop at a dhaba or a roadside eatery on the outskirts of your town or city to see

1. how many travellers stop there to eat?
2. how many travellers stop there for other reasons?
3. how the shopkeepers are treated?
4. the kind of business the shopkeepers do.
5. the kind of life they lead.

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