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NCERT Solutions Poorvi Chapter 5 My Dear Soldiers — Let us explore

Book page 205 Updated on2026-09-05

Q1.
Design a badge of honour for the soldiers. You may make it by hand, with cardboard, paper, and colours, or alternately, design it digitally and take a printout. Remember to include a self-designed logo and a slogan in the badge.
Answer

What the badge must contain (both are named in the question): a self-designed logo and a slogan.

Method

  1. Pick a shape — circle, shield, star or chakra. Cut it from cardboard, about 8–10 cm across.
  2. Design the logo yourself. Do not copy a real regimental crest. Combine two or three simple symbols that mean something — a flame (the Amar Jawan Jyoti), a mountain and a wave (land and sea), a lamp, an outstretched palm of protection, a lotus, a chakra.
  3. Write a short slogan — four or five words at most, so that it can be read from a distance. For example: “Awake So India Sleeps”, “Service Before Self”, “For the Land We Love”, “Guarding Every Horizon”.
  4. Use no more than three colours, and leave a clear border.
  5. Write one line at the back explaining what your logo stands for — that is what you will read out in class.
Design tip: a badge is small, so a simple symbol beats a detailed drawing. Squint at your design from two metres away; if you can still tell what it is, it works.
Q2.
Find out any poem or story in your mother tongue or regional language about the sacrifices and bravery of soldiers. Make a presentation in the class.
Answer

Method

  1. Ask at home first. Grandparents and neighbours often remember a poem or a folk song that is not in any book.
  2. Choose one piece that is short enough to read aloud in two minutes.
  3. Prepare three things: the piece in the original language, a simple translation or summary in English or Hindi, and one or two lines about the poet or the event behind it.
  4. Read the original aloud first, then explain — the class should hear how it sounds before it learns what it means.

Starting points in different languages

  • Hindi: ‘Pushp ki Abhilasha' by Makhanlal Chaturvedi (printed in this very unit, page 189); ‘Jhansi ki Rani' by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan; ‘Kadam Milakar Chalna Hoga' by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
  • Bengali: Kazi Nazrul Islam's ‘Bidrohi'.
  • Marathi: the powadas — ballads sung about the bravery of Shivaji Maharaj and his commanders.
  • Punjabi: ‘Mera Rang De Basanti Chola'; the vaars sung by dhadi singers.
  • Tamil: the patriotic songs of Subramania Bharati.
  • Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese and other languages all have ballads about local heroes — and Rani Abbakka herself lives on in the Tulu paad-danas of coastal Karnataka.
Presentation tip: end with one sentence of your own — why this poem stayed with you. That is the part the class will remember.
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