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Direction:  Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

The coverage of Kabali by the newspapers in India has attracted a vortex of complaints from their readers.

Some went on to say that the reportage on Kabali reflected the fall in the standard of the newspapers. In some opinion the focus and hype created by the newspapers also reflect the fall in their standard of reporting.

Another reader was of the firm opinion that the media hype surrounding the film would have a debilitating influence on schoolchildren.

A newspaper is a form of common good. The plurality and multiplicity of issues it covers gives it a social role.

While politics, international relations, security affairs, economics, and policy debates are seen as topics that have a public interest component, many fail to understand the multiple strands that make up our cultural fabric. There seems to be a hierarchy where high culture, especially classical forms, is accorded respectability and its reportage is seen as worthy news.

However, when it comes to popular culture, the opinion is divided. Nearly two decades ago, Ashis Nandy, one of the finest intellectuals, argued that popular Indian cinema offers a "slum's eye view of politics." He explained how it recreated a remembered village in more than one sense. Mr. Nandy recorded how the screen becomes the site for modernising India in all its complexity, sophistry,

naivete, and at times even vulgarity, where a dialogue between tradition and modernity is taking place. Hence, it becomes an editorial obligation to look at a phenomenon like Kabali which generated not just nationwide interest but became an international curiosity too. The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in Africa. If a particular popular cultural moment has captured the imagination of the people, can the newspaper afford not to cover it extensively? I would have been appalled if any of the major developments had been neglected by the newspaper to accommodate stories about Kabali. But this was the period when the paper had extensive coverage of not only domestic politics, economics and social issues, but also international developments including Brexit, Donald Trump's candidature, the botched up coup in Turkey and its bloody fallout, and terror attacks in Nice and Munich.

'The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East

Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in

Africa.' What do you understand by the words

'Anglophone countries in Africa'?

A)  The countries of Africa with sizable Indian population.

B)  The countries of Africa where Indian cinema is very popular.

C)  The countries of Africa where a sizable number of population speak English.

D)  The countries of Africa where a sizable number of population speak Hindi.

E)  None of these_________________