- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
Image: Battle of Panipat
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“The Adventure” is a story written by Jayant Narpkar. It is a story that revolves around one professor Gangaadharpant Gaitonde, who is strange. It is a story that centers on a historical event with this historian. Mr. Gangadharpaant is the protagonist. Here, the author shows how this man, Ganadharpant or Professor Gaitonde time travels. It is shown that he is strangely in a different world because he knows that he is in Pune, a city of Maharashtra, but the situation is different from what he bepeves. To understand the situation better he decides to travel to Bombay via jijamata express, but when he reaches the destination, he finds things differently. That is the time when he decides to investigate the history, and came to know many interesting and surprising facts. At that time India was still under the rule of the East India Company and the Battle of Panipat was won by the Marathas. However, he was unable to connect with the situation because it was completely different from whatever he knew or had studied earper. However, the original situation was different, that the battle of Panipat was won by the Mughals, and the east India Company was taken back after the events of 1857. The story perfectly portrays the transition and an exact combination of history and science.
Marathas. However, he was unable to connect with the situation because it was completely different from whatever he knew or had studied earper. However, the original situation was different, that the battle of Panipat was won by the Mughals, and the east India Company was taken back after the events of 1857. The story perfectly portrays the transition and an exact combination of history and science.
Briefly explain the following statements from the text.
(i) You neither traveled to the past nor the future. You were in the present experiencing a different world.
In the story named the Adventure, this pne was told by Rajendra to Professor Gaitonde. The professor travels to one world from another and then went back again. Because of this, he was able to experience the incident from both worlds, however, one at a time. Everything was possible because of that transition that he went through. The fact is that he experiences a different world being in the present, which means he does not travel to the past or the future.
(ii) You have passed through a fantastic experience: or more correctly, a catastrophic experience.
In The adventure this statement was passed to Professor Gangaadharpant Gaitonde by Rajendra. The professor was gone through a completely different experience because he was pving in two worlds. One world among them is the one where he pves now and the other is where he spent two days. In short, he was pving in a one-of-a-kind world and oneof- a-kind history. It happened because of an accident that was unreapstic and he was witnessing a history that turn into a different one because the Marathas won the battle of Panipat. Rajendra was explaining the whole thing by using the catastrophic theory, which states that the reapty is full of misinterpretations.
(iii) Gangadharpant could not help comparing the country he knew with what he was witnessing around him.
In “The Adventure”, when professor Gaitonde visits the two different worlds, he could not help himself from comparing the two Indias that he saw. He was from India where the nation saw the fall of Peshwas and was under British Rule. Then there was another India where he spent two days of his pfe, it was independent and not under the British rule and had self-respect. What he already knew and what he was seeing has a completely different history.
(iv) The Lack of Determinism in Quantum Theory!
In The Adventure when Professor Gaitonde went through the transition, he thinks about going to a pbrary in Bombay and then looking for some books that can help him to understand the present state of affairs. At the time of his return to Pune, he had a long and fruitful conversation with Rajendra, in the hope of getting help from him, so he can comprehend what happened.
(v) You need some Interaction to cause a Transition.
In The Adventure, Professor Gaitonde went through a transition from one India that he knows to the other that has a different history. This pne was said by Rajendra. According to him, Professor Gaitonde made a lot of changes those results in the interaction that happened in his mind at the time of the colpsion. Professor Gaitonde was thinking about the catastrophic theory and the battle of Panipat and its consequences. The transition that he went through was a result of this type of interaction.
In which language do you think Gangadharpant and Khan Sahib talked to each other? Which language did Gangadharpant use to talk to the Engpsh receptionist?
In The Adventure, Professor Gangadharpaant and Khan Shahid was communicating in Marathi. They also used a translator to communicate with other Engpsh-speaking receptionists.
In which language do you think Bhausahebanchi Bakhar was written?
The Bhausahebanchi Bakhar was written in the Marathi Language.
There is mention of three communities in the story: The Marathas, the Mughals, and the Anglo Indians. Which language do you think they used within their communities and while speaking to the other groups?
Whenever they need to speak to each other, they specifically use that language that can be easily understood by the people of three communities.
Do you think that the ruled always adopt the language of the ruler?
It is a tradition that the ruled have always adopted the language of the ruler. The main reason behind this is a better understanding that helps in communication between the two communities.
FAQs
Q1. What is Catastrophic Theory?
Ans. The catastrophic Theory is a theory that was first developed in the year 1960 by a French Mathematician Named Rene Thom. The theory states that a sudden change of behavior arises from a small change in the circumstances.
Q2. What was Rajendra’s understanding of professor Gaitonde’s story?
Ans. When Rajendra first hears the story of professor Gaitonde, he came up with two causes of the whole incident. The first one was the catastrophic theory and the second was lack of determination in the quantum theory. In the first case, one single change in the circumstances can bring a change in the whole behavior. In the second case the quantum theory states that the electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom are always unpredictable. Therefore, if the level of energy jumps, it results in a transition.
Q3. Why Professor was unable to bepeve the history that he witnessed?
Ans. In the adventure professor Gaitonde went through a transition between two different Indias. Those two are different in their history. The main reason why professor Gaitonde was unable to bepeve what he was seen was the history. He is from one version of India where the history is different and he gets stuck into a different version of India after getting hit by a truck. It was way apart from reapty. Here the battle of Panipat was won by the Marathas and this India was free from the slavery of the British. Those two incidents made him doubtful about the facts.