IPMAT Indore 2023 (VA) PYQs

The concept of the ‘Villa’ and other European ideas came to Lucknow with foreign soldiers, travellers and adventurers. For the Nawabs of Lucknow, architecture became the physical manifestation of their new status, and a way of proclaiming their alignment to the new power bloc. ___________. Villas, hence, provided an ideal substitute. Europeans sold to the Nawabs the idea of villas, based on designs in publications carried by them, and often aided by memory. The building chosen as the prototype for the famous Dilkusha Kothi was a country house in Northumberland.

_____________. Conflicts are now brewing over rivers and river basins shared by many countries around the world. This is not unexpected, given the fact that more than two hundred water bodies are shared by two or more countries. Strife over water, for example, is erupting throughout the Middle East, from the watersheds of the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

An island in Japan boasts of numerous dairy farms that own nearly one million cows, and supplies 70% of the milk sold in the country. These dairy farms have now begun to use cow manure to produce hydrogen. The methane from cow manure mingles with steam in a high temperature environment to produce hydrogen, which is used to electrify the local zoo. __________________________.