KSEEB Class 10 · English (2nd language) · KTBS Revised 2024-25
The Song of India
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Karnataka Board Class 10 English.
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About the author
V.K. Gokak (1909–1992) - Kannada poet, scholar, and Jnanpith awardee. "The Song of India" is a patriotic lyric in the SSLC poetry unit.
Summary
Gokak addresses Mother India directly. The speaker hears her "song" in every river, hill, and tongue - not one tune but a chorus of many voices united.
Gokak addresses Mother India directly. The speaker hears her "song" in every river, hill, and tongue - not one tune but a chorus of many voices united.
The Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Krishna, Kaveri and more flow through the poem as arteries of culture. Each stream carries history, pilgrimage, and peasant life.
The Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Krishna, Kaveri and more flow through the poem as arteries of culture. Each stream carries history, pilgrimage, and peasant life.
Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and dozens of tongues appear as jewels on India's garland. No single language owns the nation; plurality is strength.
Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and dozens of tongues appear as jewels on India's garland. No single language owns the nation; plurality is strength.
Temple bells, mosque calls, church hymns and gurdwara kirtans blend in the song. Secular harmony is part of India's identity in Gokak's vision.
Temple bells, mosque calls, church hymns and gurdwara kirtans blend in the song. Secular harmony is part of India's identity in Gokak's vision.
The poet urges young Indians to guard this heritage - to build the nation with knowledge, labour, and love, not division.
The poet urges young Indians to guard this heritage - to build the nation with knowledge, labour, and love, not division.
For SSLC: note personification (India as mother/singer), imagery of water and sound, and the theme unity in diversity. RTC lines often quote river or language lists.
For SSLC: note personification (India as mother/singer), imagery of water and sound, and the theme unity in diversity. RTC lines often quote river or language lists.
Hard words & meanings
| patriotic | showing love for the nation |
| diversity | many different forms together |
| personification | treating a thing as if it were human |
| garland | a wreath of flowers - here, languages as jewels |
| heritage | what past generations pass down |
| chorus | sung or spoken in unison |
| secular | not favouring one faith over others |
| lyric | a poem expressing personal feeling |
| pilgrimage | travel to a sacred place |
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