Question

Given the cultural and intellectual interconnections, the question of what is ‘Western’ and what is ‘Eastern’ (or Indian) is often hard to decide, and the issue can be discussed only in more dialectical terms. The diagnosis of a thought as ‘purely Western’ or ‘purely Indian’ can be very illusory.

• A. Thoughts are not the kind of things that can be easily categorized.
• B. Though ‘occidentalism’ and ‘orientalism’ as dichotomous concepts have found many adherents.
• C. ‘East is East and West is West’ has been a discredited notion for a long time now.
• D. Compartmentalizing thoughts is often desirable.
• E. The origin of a thought is not the kind of thing to which ‘purity’ happens easily

Answer 1

The correct option is E The origin of a thought is not the kind of thing to which ‘purity’ happens easily

Option A can be easily eliminated as it is a mere repetition of the ideas presented in the para. Option B is a little farfetched as it should come one or two more sentences later in the para. Option C does not match with the idea presented in the passage. Option D does not match the tone of the paragraph. Option E completes the idea with the emphasis in the last line of the para is that the idea of 'pure Western and pure Indian thoughts' is deceptive. Hence option(E) is the answer.