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ADVANCED WRITING SKILL- BY
RAJESH KUMAR GIRI |
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A PORTRAIT OF A
LADY BY – KHUSWANT SINGH |
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SUMMARY |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Portrait Of A lady is an auto biography
by Khushwant Singh. It is a perception of Khushwant Singh of his grandmother through
his own eyes. Khushwant Singh recalls his grandmother as an eternally old
person. She was an extremely religious person. It was difficult for him to
believe that once she too was young and pretty like other women. The stories about her childhood games were
like fairy tales to him. APPEARANCE OF GRANDMOTHER She
was short, fat and slightly stooped in stature. Her silvery white hair used
to scatter on her wrinkled face. Khushwant Singh remembers her hobbling
around the house in spotless white clothes with one hand resting on her waist
to balance her stoop and the other busy in telling the beads of her rosary. RELIGIOUS AND KIND HEARTED Her lips constantly moved in inaudible
prayers. Possibly she was not beautiful in worldly sense but she looked extremely
beautiful with the peacefulness, serenity and the contentment her countenance
displayed. LIFE IN VILLAGE Khushwant’s relationship with his
grandmother went through several changes when he was a small boy. In the
first stage Khushwant lived in a village with her as his parents were looking
for the opportunity to settle down in the city. In village grandmother took
care of all the needs of the child. She was quite active and agile. She woke
him up in the morning, got him ready for the school, plastered his wooden
slate, prepared his breakfast, and escorted him to the school. They fed
street dogs with stale chapattis on their way to school which was a great fun
for them. She helped him in his lessons also .It was her domain and she was
the queen of her kingdom. In this period she was the sole unchallenged
guardian, mentor, and creator of the child Khushwant. TURNING POINT IN RELATION The turning point came in their
relationship when they came to city to stay with Khushwant’s parents. In city
Khushwant joined an English School and started to go to school in a motor
bus. Here the role of his grandmother in his bringing up was curtailed a
little bit. Now she could not accompany him to the school. Despite taking lot
of interest in his studies she could not help him in his lessons because he
was learning English, law of gravity, Archimedes’ principle and many more
such things which she could not understand and this made her unhappy. She
found herself at loss. One more thing which disturbed her a lot was that the
kids were not learning about God and scriptures in the school instead they
were given music lessons which was not an honorable thing in her opinion. To
her music was not meant for gentlefolk. It was meant for beggars and
prostitutes only. She highly disapproved this and as she could not change it
she was dismayed and withdrew herself to some extent. Perhaps she had
realized that in the makeover of the child her role was finished and this
very thought saddened her most. After finishing school Khushwant went to
university. He was given a separate room. The common link of their friendship
was snapped. His grandmother confined herself to a self-imposed seclusion.
She spent most of her time in reciting prayers and by sitting beside her
spinning wheel. She rarely talked to anyone. The only recreation for her was
in the afternoon when she relaxed for a while to feed the sparrows. A kind
hearted person, in village she used to feed street dogs, here in city she
focused on birds and they too became very friendly with her. This was the
phase when she found herself totally isolated and aloof but she braved this
isolation with grace and dignity. Khushwant’s grandmother was a
strong character. Whatever she went through in her heart she always
restrained herself from demonstrating her emotions. He recalls that when he
went abroad for further studies his grandmother was there to see him off on
railway station quite calm busy telling the beads of her rosary and reciting
prayers as always. When he came back after five years he found her more and
more religious and more and more self-contained. She spent still more time in
prayers and spinning the wheel. PASSTIME IN CITY Feeding the birds was her only
happy pastime. But just the day before her death for the first time she broke
this routine and gave up her prayers. That day she sang the songs of the home
coming of the warriors on a withered drum along with the ladies of
neighbourhood in order to celebrate her grandson’s return from abroad. Next
morning she got ill. Although the doctor said it was a mild fever and would
go away she could foresee that her end was near. She was upset that she
omitted her prayers just before the final departure from the world. She did
not want to waste any more time talking to anybody. She lay peacefully in bed
praying and telling the beads till her lips stopped moving and rosary fell
from her lifeless fingers. RESULT OF LOVE AND AFFECTION To mourn her death thousands of sparrows
flew in and sat scattered around her body in utter silence. They even ignored
the breadcrumbs thrown for them by Khushwant’s mother. They only flew away
after the corpse was carried away for last rites. |
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Q1. How did Khushwant Singh portray his
grandfather in the lesson? Ans:
Khushwant Singh describes his grandfather as he was painted in the portrait wearing
a big turban and loose-fitting clothes, a long white beard covering the best
part of his chest and looking at least a hundred years old. Q2. Describe ‘the happiest half-hour of the day’
for the grandmother. Ans: For
Khushwant Singh’s grandmother there was none other pastime and happy activity
than that of feeding the sparrows in the afternoon for half an hour. The
sparrows could be seen perched on her legs, shoulders and even on her head
but were never shooed away by her. |
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8.)
Silences-Make quiet
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