A. The age of pragmatism is here, whether we like it or not.
B. The staple rhetoric that was for so long dished out also belongs to the bipolar world of yesterday.
C. The old equations, based on the cold war and on non-alignment, no longer hold good.
D. But contrary to much of what is being said and written, it is a multipolar rather than unipolar world that appears to be emerging out of recent events

ABCD

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Solution

The correct option is B ACBD
Genre- Philosophy

It’s very easy to figure out that A is the introductory statement as it introduces the idea of ‘the age of pragmatism’, but we can’t eliminate any option with this information because all the options start with A.

What we can do is fix the last statement as D because it starts with the linking word ‘but’ which is used for contrast, and there is no other sentence which can follow it. Now we're left with options (a) and (b).

B comes before C because B talks about the world of yesterday and C then talks about the cold equations.

Hence, the answer is ABCD.

CAT 1991

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