words

Question 1

Curb means?

Answer 1

To control or limit something

Question 2

What was the emergency in midnights children?

Answer 2

On June 25, 1975, Pres. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a state of emergency throughout the country on Gandhi’s advice. Electricity was cut off to the Delhi neighborhood where most media houses were headquartered. No newspapers could be printed, and Indians received news of the Emergency the next morning on All India Radio. It was the beginning of months of severe censorship of the press, which was largely critical of Gandhi’s assumption of emergency powers, her policies, and the actions of her son Sanjay Gandhi, who was allegedly responsible for executing some of the Emergency’s worst excesses, such as forced sterilization.

Question 3

egalitarian means?

Answer 3

believing that all people are equally important and should have the same rights and opportunities in life:

Question 4

What does utopian mean?

Answer 4

relating to or aiming for a perfect society in which everyone works well with each other and is happy:

Question 5

Apocalyptic mean?

Answer 5

showing or describing the total destruction and end of the world, or extremely bad future events:

Question 6

teleological means?

Answer 6

(in philosophy) involving the belief that everything has a purpose or use
Everything is moving towards something…. like democracy for instance

Question 7

historicity ( /hɪs.təˈrɪs.ə.ti/ )

Answer 7

the quality of being a real and important part of history and not a myth or legend (= ancient story):

Question 8

what is an allegory?

Answer 8

A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. The prinicipal teqnique is personification. whereby abstract qualities are given human shape.