Para-jumble (metaphor & chronology): Arrange the sentences to track Madras’s December music season as a tropical cyclone, moving from build-up to downpour to aftermath. S1 = "The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone." S6 = "Many a hastily planted shrub gets washed away in the storm." Between S1 and S6, place the four fragments in the most coherent storm-like progression: P = "A few among the new aspirants dazzle with the colour of youth, like fresh saplings." Q = "It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight." R = "Thick clouds of expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements." S = "At the end of it, one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists, seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-rooted trees." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.

Given data

• S1 introduces a sustained cyclone metaphor for the Madras December dance-and-music season.
• R: "Thick clouds of expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements."
• Q: "It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight."
• P: "A few among the new aspirants dazzle with the colour of youth, like fresh saplings."
• S: "At the end of it, one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists, seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-rooted trees."
• S6: "Many a hastily planted shrub gets washed away in the storm."

Concept / Approach (map the weather metaphor to narrative phases)
A cyclone unfolds in recognizable stages: build-up (clouds) → downpour (rain) → transient flashes → post-storm reckoning → fallout. Each sentence P/Q/R/S aligns with one of these phases.Therefore, arrange the body between S1 and S6 as: R (clouds gather) → Q (it rains) → P (brief youthful dazzle during the season) → S (after it ends, only seasoned trees stand tall), which naturally cues S6 (the weak are washed away).

Step-by-step ordering
Step 1 — Build-up: S1 sets the cyclone metaphor;
place R next
"Thick clouds of expectation..." mirrors pre-storm clouding and hype via advertisements.Step 2 — Downpour:
add Q
"It rains an abundance of music..." matches the storm's rain and the festival's performance deluge.Step 3 — Transient flashes during the season:
add P
Youthful "saplings" dazzle while the season is in full swing, akin to bright but fragile growth in heavy weather.Step 4 — Aftermath and evaluation:
add S
"At the end of it..." we see only artists "seasoned by careful nurturing" stand like "well-rooted trees", i.e., the durable remain.Step 5 — Fallout / moral:
close with S6
"Hastily planted shrubs" are washed away — a direct continuation of the storm imagery and a consequence of insufficient rooting.

Why the other orders fail (quick rejections)
QRPS: Begins with rain before clouds; metaphor loses the natural build-up.RQSP: Moves from rain to the end-state (S) and then back to in-season dazzle (P); this breaks chronology ("end" cannot precede mid-season flashes).QRSP: Again starts with rain, skipping the advertisement "clouds" build-up and misplacing the ending before the mid-season burst.

Verification / Read-through
S1 + R + Q + P + S + S6 → "The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone. Thick clouds of expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements. It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight. A few among the new aspirants dazzle with the colour of youth, like fresh saplings. At the end of it, one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists, seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-rooted trees, and many a hastily planted shrub gets washed away in the storm."

Common pitfalls

• Ignoring cue words like "At the end of it" (S), which must occur after the in-season action (P, Q).
• Forgetting that clouds precede rain in the guiding metaphor.
• Placing the evaluation (S) before the transient dazzle (P), which reverses aftermath vs. during-season logic.

Final Answer
RQPS