2nd Puc English Where There Is A Wheel Lesson Notes Question Answers

Cycling as a symbol of social mobility means freedom, independence and mobility for rural women.

a. asserting her right to move freely.

For the rural women bicycle represents ‘freedom’.

Cycling has benefitted the rural women the most.

Cycling as a social movement was first popularized by the neo-literates. These neo-literates are the ones who became neo-cyclists.

c. status of women in patriarchal society.

Women had to put up with vicious attacks on their character. Some of the men made filthy remarks. Social sanction from the Arivoli organization, made some menfolk less hostile and some of them even encouraged the women to learn cycling

The phrases ‘flags on the handle bar’ and ‘bells ringing’ refer to the women’s cycle rally organized on the international Women’s Day in 1992 in which 1500 female cyclists took Pudukkottai by storm.

The UNICEF sanctioned fifty mopeds to Arivoli women activists in appreciation of their work of initiating more than 70,000 women from Pudukkotai who have taken part to display their cycling skills at the public ‘exhibition-cum-contests’ in a single week in 1992.

The word ‘humble’ means ‘poor’, the lowest in rank. The writer calls it a humble vehicle because it is the most common and it is seen even in the most remote places, a common man’s vehicle

Muthu Bhaskaran is the male Arivoli activist who penned the famous cycling song.

Pudukkottai district in TamilNadu is the place where the cycling movement took place.

The women of Pudukkottai took to cycling to break free from the maleimposed barriers. ‘Cycling’ enabled them to achieve freedom, mobility and independence.

Jameela Bibi, Fatima, and N.Kannammal are some of the women who have taken to cycling.

A secondary school teacher.

Light of knowledge movement.

Arivoli Iyakkam

Sheela Rani Chunkath, a popular former District Collector, was the brain behind the cycling movement

Sheela Rani added mobility as a part of the literacy drive.

In 1991 Sheela Rani Chunkath started the cycling movement in the Pudukkottai district with the intention of training female literacy activists so that literacy would reach women in the interior.

Twenty two years old Manormani is a quarry worker and an Arivoli volunteer

Cycling by women has become a metaphor for freedom.

Cycling has helped small producers cut down on time wasted in waiting for buses . It has also helped them to give more time to focus on selling their produce. It has also helped them to cover a large area

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