The FRA was enacted in 2006 with the aim of protecting the claims of tribal communities over tracts  of land or forests they have inhabited and cultivated for generations. It has the potential to democratise forest governance by recognising community forest resource rights over an estimated

85.6 million acres, thereby empowering over 200 million forest dwellers in over 1,70,000 villages. However, the FRA’s future is precariously balanced between the democratic control and protection of forests on the one hand and rapacious corporations backed by an unscrupulous political class on the other. It has become the site of a deep conflict.

Which of the following is the most logical corollary to the above passage?

Many Americans are now learning to meditate at the office. From Aetna to General Mills to Google, corporate America has bought into mindfulness in a big way, rolling out employee training programs across its campuses and promoting mindful leaders to top positions. These efforts, which gained momentum after the crash of 2008, have coincided with the most precipitous decline in fortunes Americans have seen since the Great Depression—a period of layoffs, outsourcing, and the    casualization of labor. Workers who held on to their jobs experienced what journalists Clara Jeffery     and Monika Bauerlein have called “the great speedup.” Under pressure to  do  more  with  less, Americans struggle to complete an ever-expanding to-do list during ever-expanding working hours without an increase in pay. For many, staying in work has required a fundamental change in lifestyle:    In 2002 just 8 percent of employees checked email before arriving at the office. Today 50 percent deal with email before even getting out of bed.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are in accordance with the underlying message of the passage?

1. Great Depression and 2008 financial crash had a massive impact on the work psychology of Americans
2. Economic meltdown is accompanied by casualization of workforce

What, according to the passage, is the meaning of the term “the great speedup”?

Astrology expresses complex ideas about personality, life cycles, and relationship patterns through the shorthand of the planets and zodiac symbols. And that shorthand works well online, where symbols    and shorthand are often baked into communication.

What assumption(s) is/are are being made in the passage?

1. Astrology is a good tool to understand personality
2. Online conversations and interactions are more effective when symbols and short hands are

The cryptocurrency community is centered around a tight knit group of friends — developers, libertarians, Redditors and cypherpunks — who have known each other for years through meet-ups,  an endless circuit of crypto conferences and internet message boards. Over long hours in anonymous group chats, San Francisco bars and Settlers of Catan game nights,  they  talk  about  how cryptocurrency will decentralize power and wealth, changing the world order. The goal may be decentralization, but the money is extremely concentrated. Coinbase has more than 13 million  accounts that own cryptocurrencies. Data suggests that about 94  percent  of  the  Bitcoin  wealth  is held by men, and some estimate that 95 percent of the wealth is held by 4 percent of the owners.

What is the most logical and critical inference that can be drawn from the passage?