Unit III - Care for the Morrow

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III. Read and reflect
Read the letter by a world famous scientist who made a great effort for
encouraging the farmers.

A Letter from an Uncle Intro

                                                              July 15,1954
C.V. Raman
Rama  vilas,

Farming
Shivapuram CV
My dear nephew,
Close Read and respond
I hope I am not very late in congratulating you on
your birthday. By this mail, I am sending you a small 1. Why did C. V. Raman
package which contains my birthday present, a silver send his nephew a
watch. I don't know your likes and dislikes, but surely watch as a birthday gift?
every boy likes a watch! I hope you will always keep ..….………..........…………..
this as a token of my affection for you. ..….………..........…………..

appo
Would you please give my apologiesto your father
for my failure to answer his last letter? I have been very 2. What is the complicated
busy  for  many  months  with  my  work  here.    I  am  at work mentioned in this
irrigation
present  in  charge  of  the  development  of  irrigation  in letter?
this  district.  This  complicated  work  presents  many ..….………..........…………..
puzzling problems. We have had to do a lot of propaganda ..….………..........…………..
among the village people who own the land. Such people
do not like strangers to come and introduce new ways 3. Why don't people like
of cultivation, or even new ways of supplying water; and, strangers to come and
heavily taxed already, they are afraid that afterwards introduce new ways of
we shall demand increased taxes. Indeed, we met with cultivation?
such resistance at first that I was even tempted to resign ..….………..........…………..
my appointment! However I had to persevere for their ..….………..........…………..
sake;  and  now,  by  reasoning  with  them,  joking  with4. Why was Raman
them, and repeating the same arguments over and over tempted to resign his
again, I have made them feel that they themselves are appointment?

Lesson
all partners in this work.
irrigation
We propose to irrigate the field with river water.
..….………..........…………..
..….………..........…………..
We  have  to  dig  big  canals,  into  which  the  water  will
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issue from the river, and smaller canals, leading into
the rice fields. Thus we are really harnessing the river
and making it do the most useful work. Those people
whose fields are farthest from the river are now urging
us to bring the canals to the borders of their fields with
all possible speed. Though
extremely anxious to help
A all of them, we can't help
disappointing  a  few
people.  But,  in  a  short
time, there will be no rice
cultivators  whose  needs
are not satisfied.
For  the  present,  we
propose  to  dig  enough
canals  to  irrigate  about
sixty square miles of rice
growing  land  with  canal
water.  We  decided  long
C ago  which  canals  should  be  dug  first,  and,  working
steadily,  we  have  already  made  good  progress.  Very5. They will bless the
soon,  water  will  be  flowing  slowly  from  field  to  field. government for it. What
does 'it' suggest here?
Even the few people who are still in doubt about all this
will  learn  soon  by  experience  how  much  time  and ..….………..........…………..
trouble can be saved by this irrigation system, and I ..….………..........…………..
hope  that,  having  learned  this,  they  will  bless  the
Government for it!
Do write to me, and tell me about all the people in
pics
your house. Please give my love to everyone. 1
Your affectionate uncle 2
C. V. Raman
Letter 3
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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 -

21 November 1970), the well-known Indian physicist, was
born into a Tamil Iyer family in Thir uvanaikaval,
Thiruchirapally, in the former Madras Province. His pioneering
work in the field of light scattering earned him the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1930. In 1954, he was honoured with the
Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

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