Statement 1: The first committee of the association was composed of: Raja Radhakanta Deb - President, Raja Kalikrishna Deb - Vice-President, Debendranath Tagore - secretary.

Statement 2: In 1884, M. Veeraraghavachariar, G. Subramania Iyer and P. Anandacharlu established the Madras Mahajana Sabha.

Statement 3: Indian Association was the first avowed nationalist organization founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876.

Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act defines a child as a person under age of 18 years. Thus, statement 1 is incorrect.

It encompasses the biological age of the child and silent on the mental age considerations. Thus, statement 2 is correct.

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) 2012 was formulated in order to effectively address sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 received the President's assent on 19th June 2012 and was notified in the Gazette of India on 20th June, 2012.

Objectives:

• The Act defines different forms of sexual abuse, including penetrative and non-penetrative assault, as well as sexual harassment and pornography.
• The Act also casts the police in the role of child protectors during the investigative process
• The Act further makes provisions for avoiding the re-victimisation of the child at the hands of the judicial system.
• It provides for special courts that conduct the trial in-camera and without revealing the identity of the child, in a manner that is as child-friendly as possible.
• Above all, the Act stipulates that a case of child sexual abuse must be disposed of within one year from the date the offence is reported.

The Carpathian Mountains form a 1,500km-long range in Central and Eastern Europe. They stretch west to east in an arc from the Czech Republic to Romania. The Tatra range between Slovakia and Poland is a national park and has several peaks above 2,400 meters. More than half of the Carpathian range lies in Romania, where spruce forests are home to brown bears, wolves and lynxes.

Statement 1 is correct. Kathakali dance is chiefly interpretative. The dancer expresses himself through codified hastamudras and facial expressions, closely following the verses (padams) that are sung. The characters in a Kathakali performance are broadly divided into satvika, rajasika and tamasika types. Satvika characters are noble, heroic, generous and refined. In pacha, green colour dominates and kirita (headgear) is worn by all. Krishna and Rama wear special crowns decorated with peacock feathers. The noble characters like Indra, Arjun and the Devas are some of the pacha characters.

Statement 2 is correct. Kathakali is a blend of dance, music and acting and dramatizes stories, which are mostly adapted from the Indian epics. It is a stylized art form, the four aspects of abhinaya - angika, aharya,vachika, satvika and the nritta, nritya and natya aspects are combined perfectly.

Statement 3 is correct. In no other dance style is the entire body used so completely as in Kathakali. The technical details cover every part of the body from facial muscles to fingers, eyes, hands and wrists. The facial muscles play an important part. The movement of the eyebrows, the eye-balls and the lower eye-lids as described in the Natya Shastra are not used to such an extent in any other dance style. The weight of the body is on the outer edges of the feet which are slightly bent and curved.

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