CBSE 2025, Set 3

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Answer in 120-150 words : (1x5=5 marks)
(a) How do the characters of Umberto Eco from 'The Interview' and Subbu from 'Poets and Pancakes' compare in terms of their resourcefulness?

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The correct answer is Subjective. Both Umberto Eco and Kothamangalam Subbu were exceptionally resourceful and multi-talented, though in entirely different domains. **Umberto Eco's resourcefulness:** - A highly successful academician and professor who wrote massively successful novels (like "The Name of the Rose") on Sundays. - Multi-faceted and staggering in his output: he produced academic texts, essays, children's books, literary fiction, and newspaper articles. - He was extremely resourceful with his time, inventing the concept of "interstices" (empty spaces) to write during small transitional gaps in his day, maximizing his productivity. **Subbu's resourcefulness:** - He was the creative force at Gemini Studios. He was exceptionally spontaneous and resourceful whenever a producer or director was stuck, offering multiple alternative solutions to every problem instantly. - Multi-faceted in the film industry: he was an accomplished poet, a novelist, a capable actor, and a loyal right-hand man to the Boss. - He used his creative energy solely for the benefit of his Boss and the studio. While Eco's resourcefulness was intellectual and time-management driven, Subbu's was practical, creative, and spontaneously geared toward film production.

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