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    Case-Narmada River

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    The document describes an in-class exercise where students are asked to read a story about characters living on opposite sides of the Narmada River during a flood. They must then rank the six main characters from most to least reprehensible and briefly explain their reasoning. The story describes Roshna desperately trying to cross the river to check on her cousin Ashok during the floods and having unpleasant encounters with others who try to take advantage of her vulnerable situation.

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    The document describes an in-class exercise where students are asked to read a story about characters living on opposite sides of the Narmada River during a flood. They must then rank the six main characters from most to least reprehensible and briefly explain their reasoning. The story describes Roshna desperately trying to cross the river to check on her cousin Ashok during the floods and having unpleasant encounters with others who try to take advantage of her vulnerable situation.

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    The document describes an in-class exercise where students are asked to read a story about characters living on opposite sides of the Narmada River during a flood. They must then rank the six main characters from most to least reprehensible and briefly explain their reasoning. The story describes Roshna desperately trying to cross the river to check on her cousin Ashok during the floods and having unpleasant encounters with others who try to take advantage of her vulnerable situation.

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    Case-Narmada River

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    The document describes an in-class exercise where students are asked to read a story about characters living on opposite sides of the Narmada River during a flood. They must then rank the six main characters from most to least reprehensible and briefly explain their reasoning. The story describes Roshna desperately trying to cross the river to check on her cousin Ashok during the floods and having unpleasant encounters with others who try to take advantage of her vulnerable situation.

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    In – Class Exercise

    You are about to read the Narmada River Story. After reading the story, your task is to rank
    the six principal characters in the story inorder of their offence behaviours. The character
    who seems to be the most reprehensible will be ranked number one, the second most
    offence person as number two, and so on till you have ranked all six characters in the story.
    Fill the first tabular column provided at the end of the story for this purpose. Since you will
    no doubt have your own reasons for ranking them in the way you do, do note your reasons
    also briefly in the appropriate column provided. Bring the completed information to the next
    class.

    Narmada River Story


    There lives a woman named Roshna who was deeply in love with her cousin Ashok. Ashok in
    turn love her very much. The two lived on the opposite banks of the river Narmada. Every
    Saturday Roshna went to her aunt’s house and spent the weekend with her aunt, uncle and
    cousin Ahok. Ashok also visited her family usually on Wednesdays for a few hours.

    Torrential rains poured continuously for six days during last October and waters of the river
    rose to dangerous levels. The low line bank where Ashok live was almost submerged in
    water and nobody was sure to what extent damages had occurred. The bridge across the
    river was broken and people had no way of keeping in touch with each other. The
    uncertainty caused a lot of grief to many people, and needless. To say, Roshna and her family
    were terribly upset not knowing what had happened to the relatives across the river.

    Feeling awfully restless, Roshna went to the old man Yadav who was carrying food supplies
    across the river for some special friends of his, and requested him to take her to the other
    side. She narrated plight and said that she would pay him Rs-50/- for his favour(the usual
    Ferry charges were Rs-5/- for a round trip) Yadav said that taking her meant carrying less
    food for the needy and he would not be willing to do so unless she could at least double her
    fare. Since Roshna and her parents were poor and did not have much money, she did not
    have the rupees 100 that he asked for. Actually, even the rupees 50 she had with her been
    the money with which she was to have bought a text book. She pleaded and cajoled, bought
    to no avail. As she sat dejected under a tree, Roshna sighted her college mate, Laxman,
    whose father owned a ferry, and narrated her plight, begged him to take her across the river.
    Laxman said he would be pleased to accede to her request in return for a small favour. He
    wanted to his her just ones on her lips. He told her how much in love he himself was with
    her and how he had always dreamt of his him her just one’s as she stood horrified by the
    unexpected proposition, a mutual friend of theirs, Vishnu approach them.

    The movement Laxman saw Vishnu, he told him that Roshna wanted to cross the
    river and he would be happy to take her in his ferry if only he could kiss her once. “Is that
    such a big price for her to pay?” asked Laxman, why Roshna stood there feeling terrible
    embarrassed. Vishnu shrugged his shoulder and said that he did not want to get involved in
    something going on between the two and walked away. Not knowing what else to do and
    wanted to see Ashok where badly, Roshna very reluctantly agreed to Laxman kissing her just
    once. “Never, never, never again do I want to have anything to do with you and you must
    promise to leave me alone in the future”, she said. He agreed, then kissed her and took her
    to other side of the river.

    Roshna was crying all the time and she walked from the river bank to Ashoks house.
    When she saw Ashok alone at home she wept even more bitterly. Not understanding why
    she was so unhappy Ashok assured her that they were all alright and that she stood not is so
    upset. When he said this, Roshna started sobbing bitterly. She then told him what had
    happened. Ashok immediately flew into a rage and slapped Roshna on both her chicks.
    Ashoks father Pradip Patel who just then walked into the house saw his son hitting Roshna
    and the poor girl wailing loudly. He then took his belt and beat up his son badly. Roshna
    walked out of the house feeling avenged as his son was settling in the western sky. There
    was a smile on her face for the first time since the last few days when the rains poured
    incessantly and the river flooded.

    Rank Character Reason

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