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English Language
Each set of questions in this section is based on a single passage. Please answer each question based on what is stated or implied in the corresponding passage. In some instances, more than one option may be the answer to the question; in such a case, please choose the option that most accurately and comprehensively answers the question.
If you’re a girl in Heaven, you don’t get out much. When we leave, it’s to go to the post office to fill out the deposit forms for our mothers’ government-scheme bank accounts, or to the market where we’ve been sent for onions or tomatoes.
Makes it hard to remember that there is a world out there that is not the same as ours.
Joy goes out even less than the rest of us. When she leaves the muddy paths of Heaven, she leaves more than just tin roofs and hospital sludge. She leaves a fortress, a kingdom she built herself. Subject by subject, brick by brick.
Last year, when the health worker put Joy on the scale and told her she was underweight (just like the rest of us), Selvi Aunty took her to the hospital to get the iron pills the government is distributing to adolescent girls. When the nurse asked for Joy’s paperwork, Selvi Aunty handed over her birth certificate.
“Beti, I think you brought the wrong one,” the nurse said. Purple lab coat over a red-checkered sari. North Indian convent-school voice coated with the congratulations she must get for helping backward women, starving girls.
“This looks like it’s for your son. Do you have a child named Anand?”
“That’s right,” Selvi Aunty said. Joy sat straight backed and stone-faced, a granite statuette.
“This is Anand. He’s Joy now.”
“This is Anand?” the nurse asked.
“Yes,” Selvi Aunty said. “We were reborn. As Christians. Anand has become Joy.”
“Really, you people will stop at nothing for government hand-outs,” the nurse said.
“What do you mean?” Selvi Aunty asked. Joy, though, pressed the balls of her feet into the ground, readying herself to leave.
“Like you don’t know,” the nurse said. “This scheme is for girls! The lengths you’ll go to for some extra rations. Really. Get a job.”
“I have a job,” Selvi Aunty said. “Four jobs at four different houses. And Joy is a girl. But anyway, what does it matter? She’s underweight. The health worker said so. What’s that word? Malnourished.”
“I can’t help you,” the nurse said, waving her off. “Take your son elsewhere. And put some proper clothes on him.”
Joy stood up then. Regally declared, “Come on, Amma. Don’t bother with this woman.”
But Selvi Aunty wasn’t done yet. She leaned across the table and stared into the nurse’s eyes like a cobra hypnotizing its prey.
“Not my son,” she said quietly. “My daughter. Who is ten times the woman you will ever be.”
CLAT previous year question paper
Quantitative Techniques
An online website of electronic items is selling five different Bluetooth speakers viz. JBL, Sony, Philips, Infinity and Bose wireless speakers. The selling information of these five wireless speakers is given below.
The marked price of JBL speaker is Rs. 6000 and if two successive discounts, each of x% on the marked price are equal to a single discount of Rs. 1140.
The marked price of Sony speaker is 260/3 % of the marked price of JBL speaker and the selling price of Sony speaker after two successive discounts, each of y% on the marked price is Rs. 4026.88.
The marked price of Philips speaker is the average of the marked price of JBL speaker and Sony speaker together and the selling price of Philips speaker after two successive discounts of 15% and z% on the marked price is Rs. 4284.
The marked price of Infinity speaker is Rs. A and the selling price after x% discount is Rs. 3600. The marked price of Bose speaker is Rs. B and the discount of a% on the marked price is equal to Rs. 390. The marked price of Bose speaker is (15/26)th of the marked price of Sony speaker.
Logical Reasoning
We do not understand that a lot of us can get burnt out on a perfectly “normal” 40-hour work week. That’s partly because that 40-hour work week is a completely arbitrary creation. Job burnout is very real, but it is not the only cause of burnout. We tend to think that taking a rest or a break from work will always reverse our burnout. But because we can also get burnt out from other, less obvious causes, the cures are often less obvious as well.
If your cause of burnout stems from one of those less obvious places, just taking a break from work will not cure your burnout. You are going to have to do a little more digging to figure out the cause of your depletion. We also don’t have a good understanding of the subtler ways that burnout manifests beyond a general sense of exhaustion. Because of this, lots of people misunderstand what they are experiencing and try to “push through”, leading to even more burnout. So, what does healing from burnout look like? The first cure is rest. And I mean true rest, not rest where you feel stressed and guilty for resting.
It also helps to think through where your particular burnout stems from. After identifying the source of your burnout, then you can get honest with yourself about what you can do to help yourself. If it’s overworking, the obvious cure is a shift in the way you operate and very deliberate rest and downtime. It will depend on what’s feasible for you, but if you find yourself in a job or career that you cannot, practically speaking, quit, the question is how can you create more rest and recuperation time outside work?
Legal Reasoning
The term indemnity literally means security against loss. In a contract of indemnity, one party, i.e. the indemnifier, promise to compensate the other party, i.e. the indemnified, against the loss suffered by the other. The English law defines a contract of indemnity as a promise to save a person harmless from the consequences of an act. Thus, it includes within its ambit losses caused not merely by human agency, but also those caused by accident or fire or other natural calamities. As per Section 124 of the Contract Act, a contract of indemnity is that contract by which one party promises to save the other from loss caused to him by the conduct of the promisor himself, or by the conduct of any other person.
The definition provided by the Indian Contract Act confines itself to the losses occasioned due to the act of the promisor or due to the act of any other person. Under a contract of indemnity, liability of the promisor arises from loss caused to the promisee by the conduct of the promisor himself, or as per the terms in the indemnity contract. Every contract of insurance, other than life insurance, is a contract of indemnity. The definition is restricted to cases where loss has been caused by some human agency.
Section 124 deals with one particular kind of indemnity which arises from a promise made by an indemnifier to save the indemnified from the loss caused to him by the conduct of the indemnifier himself or by the conduct of any other person, but does not deal with those classes of cases where the indemnity arises from loss caused by events or accidents which do not depend upon the conduct of indemnifier or any other person.
In a contract of indemnity, there are two parties, i.e. indemnifier and indemnified. A contract of guarantee involves three parties, i.e. creditor, principal debtor and surety. An indemnity is for reimbursement of a loss, while a guarantee is for security of the creditor. In a contract of indemnity, the liability of the indemnifier is primary and arises when the contingent event occurs. In case of contract of guarantee, the liability of surety is secondary and arises when the principal debtor defaults. The indemnifier after performing his part of the promise has no rights against the third party and he can sue the third party only if there is an assignment in his favour. Whereas in a contract of guarantee, the surety steps into the shoes of the creditor on discharge of his liability, and may sue the principal debtor.
Current Affairs & General Knowledge
Tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea have escalated to a new level as the Philippines moves to formally establish its maritime boundaries. The latest development gives added contours to a protracted, complicated conflict over territorial sovereignty and maritime rights in one of the world’s most strategically important and disputed bodies of water. Both countries are dug-in in their assertions, with China claiming almost the entire South China Sea as part of historical territory, and the Philippines asserting its rights as interpreted by international law.
President Ferdinand Marcos signed into law, on November 8, 2024, two legislative bills strengthening the country’s maritime claims. Then, the Maritime Zones Act defines waters atop the Philippines and draws on UNCLOS in delineation of the zones, while the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act gives the Philippine President powers to designate specific sea and air lanes in which a foreign vessel may pass. These steps represent a strategic statement of territorial sovereignty in the Philippines, which establishes precedent in Southeast Asia where regional claims continually intersect with expansive assertions by the PRC.
Beijing has condemned these legislative actions, summoning the Philippine ambassador to the country to protest. A questionable historical foundation allegedly supports its claims over territories such as the Huangyan Dao, commonly known as the Scarborough Shoal, although an international jurisdiction ruling has rejected China’s expansive claim. According to Beijing, the Foreign Ministry asserts that any actions taken by China in such waters are legal because it is driven by what it deems as “effective maritime management.”. This has resulted in more frequent incidents at sea, as the Chinese coast guard and navy ships have grown bolder, using ramming into Philippine vessels and denying access to vessels to contested areas as some of their strategies. The confrontations, which sometimes include near-misses and water cannons, have raised the stakes of injury and damage, making the already tense standoff even more difficult.
The wider geopolitical implications are quite significant, given the fact that several Southeast Asian states, including Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei, have their claims in the South China Sea. The region forms a critical artery of international trade because trillions of dollars a year pass through these routes. The possibility of militarized conflict could disrupt such routes and impact global supply chains and bring security concerns into the fray. But with neither China nor the Philippines likely to step down from its respective stance, it is again where the world community can play a vital role. Continued diplomatic and multi-lateral talks remain the best hope for de-escalation but a lasting solution to this complex and high-risk landscape of the South China Sea becomes a tough endeavor in itself.