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B.Com. LL.B. (Five Years) Sem 1 General English 2019 Dec Question Paper with Solutions
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SECTION I
Section A
Answer any four · 40 Marks
Q1Briefly explain the personality of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.[10]
Answer
For full marks, cover: his own frank self-portrait (shy, sensitive, emotional, misjudged as cold); his inner faith and love of solitude; his humility about success and honesty about failure; his scholarly devotion; his tolerance and respect for all faiths; courage in defending Indian thought; his gifts as a teacher and speaker; his concern for social justice; an assessment of strengths and limits.
Introduction
In My Search for Truth (1937), Radhakrishnan gives a candid portrait of himself. Read together with the record of his work, it shows a personality of unusual balance. He was inward and reflective, yet active in the world. He was proud of his own tradition, yet open to all others.
1. A frank self-portrait
He describes himself as essentially shy and lonely, though he passed for a social man. He was nervous, sensitive and highly strung, capable of strong and deep emotions that he generally hid. Because he was withdrawn, people thought him cold and strong-willed. He says he was the opposite. Few public men describe their weaknesses so openly, and this honesty is itself a mark of his character.
2. Faith and inwardness
From childhood he had firm faith in an unseen reality, which never failed him even in grave difficulties. He loved solitude and kept, beside his outward work, an inner life of growing quiet. This inwardness gave him calm and depth. It also shaped his teaching: religion, he said, is what we do with ourselves when we are alone.
3. Humility
He attributed his success to luck, or a guiding hand, comparing it to a great pilot steering his ship. But he did not blame luck for his failures; those he called largely the result of his own folly or weakness. This combination of modesty about success and responsibility for mistakes is rare and admirable.
4. Devotion to learning
Books were his constant companions from his early years. He worked with great industry. His first book appeared when he was twenty, and he went on to write major works on Indian and Western philosophy. His method shows intellectual generosity: he tried to understand thinkers at their best and to enter sympathetically into their point of view. Humility, he said, is the mother of all writing.
5. Tolerance
His most attractive quality is tolerance. He would not speak a rash or profane word of anything held sacred by others. He saw religions as fellow labourers in one task and rejected the idea of any chosen people or unique revelation. He was hurt by missionary attacks on Hinduism, yet he never answered with attacks on Christianity; later he even preached from Christian pulpits in Oxford.
6. Courage and conviction
He was not merely gentle. He defended Indian thought at a time when it was treated as quaint and backward, and he criticised the leading philosophers of the West. He spoke plainly about the faults of Hindu practice, saying that its weaknesses came from confusing tradition with truth. He spoke just as plainly about the injustices of the world order of his day.
7. Teacher and speaker
As a teacher he wanted to form character, not just pass on information. He wanted to give his students a belief in a spiritual and ethical universe. As a speaker he moved audiences in Europe and America; an Oxford paper wrote of the "indefinable spiritual quality" of one of his sermons.
8. Concern for others
He held that those to whom life has been kind must think continually of those denied such privileges. He saw service of the poor and downtrodden as demanded by religion, not opposed to it.
Assessment
Radhakrishnan's personality joined opposites in harmony: shyness with public eloquence, deep faith with respect for reason, pride in Indian culture with openness to the world. If there is a limit, it is the one he admits himself. He had a reserve that made him seem distant to those who did not know him. But his honesty, humility and tolerance make him a model of the scholar as a good human being.
Conclusion. My assessment is that Radhakrishnan was a shy, sensitive and deeply spiritual man. His humility, industry and tolerance made him both a great scholar and a respected teacher. He defended his own tradition with courage while honouring every other faith, and he never separated knowledge from character or religion from service. These qualities, more than any office he held, explain his lasting reputation.
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