Passage 1

In English

India is a sacred land, and in this sacred land, tolerance has always been the cardinal virtue. Of all the , or the accepted codes of conduct, the vrata of truth plays a high role. The highest and the sweetest of all emotions is that of maternal love. People in India always considered honour greater than life. Alas, today we have let all those laudable ideals slip away, and we have begun to ape the cult of the west. We have reached a stage where we have lost the sense of our own greatness like the elephant who does not know its own strength.