The Reader’s Digest Book by S. Tilottama

This blog post is a response to a thinking activity task on 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' given by our prof. Dr.Dilip Barad Sir. To know more about this task, CLICK HERE.

To know more about the novel, CLICK HERE.

I tried to cover the main points included in the novel in letter-writing form. CLICK HERE to read.

The Reader’s Digest Book of English Grammar and Comprehension for Very Young Children was written by S.Tilottama. The task is to read the book and answer the questions given at the end of the story.

THE OLD MAN & HIS SON 

When Manzoor Ahmed Ganai became a militant, soldiers went to his home and picked up his father, the handsome, always dapper Aziz Ganai. He was kept in the Haider Baig Interrogation Centre. Manzoor Ahmed Ganai worked as a militant for one and a half years. His father remained imprisoned for one and a half years. 

On the day Manzoor Ahmed Ganai was killed, smiling soldiers opened the door of his father’s cell. ‘Jenaab, you wanted Azadi? Mubarak ho aapko. Congratulations! Today your wish has come true. Your freedom has come.’ 

The people of the village cried more for the shambling wreck who came running through the orchard in rags with wild eyes and a beard and hair that hadn’t been cut in a year and a half than they did for the boy who had been murdered. 

The shambling wreck was just in time to be able to lift the shroud and kiss his son’s face before they buried him. 

Q 1: Why did the villagers cry more for the shambling wreck? 

Maybe because militant groups destroyed the village to answer Ahmed Ganai's death. 

Q 2: Why did the wreck shamble? 

The answer to the soldiers is probably that they have the result to kill Ahmed Ganai. 

ChatGPT:

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. (openai.com)

Site: chat.openai.com.

ChatGPT is AI tool developed by OpenAI company. It gives the generative text answered. Sometimes this tool gives appropriate answers related to the context of the text. These prompts given to AI can be misleading in the context. Because there are possibilities of multiple answering in answers to the literature's questions.

Here I shared Screenshots that I give to AI:

Prompt: Explain the theme of Resillience and Hope in Arundhati Roy's novel 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'.

Prompt: What is the role of Dung Beetle in the novel 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Prompt: Write about the cover page and it's design. 

Prompt: Write about the cover page of the novel 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' by Arundhati Roy.