Passage 2

In English

India has been the land of great sacrifices. India is also a , the land of . On the east, there is the Bay of Bengal and on the west there is the Arabian Sea. The union or confluence of these two seas is “The ” or the Indian Ocean. The confluence symbolises the real meaning of that word and teaches us the unity between the and the . Those people who lived in India, leading an ideal life, must be considered as ideal or lights to all of us. While history is very important and not useless, we should realise that real history is not that which teaches us about kings and the periods when they ruled, but that which teaches us about the real spirit of India.