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Thanks to my English teacher ‘Mrs Jaishree’
for their able guidance and support in my
project.
The Portrait of a Laddy
By:-khushwant singh
Khushwant singh
Khushwant Singh (born Khushal Singh, 15 August 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author,
lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to
write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel.
Born in Punjab, Khushwant Singh was educated in New Delhi, and studied law at St. Stephen's College,
Delhi, and King's College London. After working as a lawyer in Lahore Court for eight years, he joined
the Indian Foreign Service upon the Independence of India from British Empire in 1947. He was
appointed journalist in the All India Radio in 1951, and then moved to the Department of Mass
Communications of UNESCO at Paris in 1956. These last two careers encouraged him to pursue a
literary career. As a writer, he was best known for his trenchant secularism, humour, sarcasm and an
abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behaviour characteristics of Westerners and
Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as the editor of several literary and news magazines, as well
as two newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s. Between 1980-1986 he served as Member of
Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India
The portrait of a laddy :-
Summary
Khushwant Singh draws here an interesting portrait of his
grandmother. He presents her as a tender, loving and deeply
religious old lady. Singh says that his grandmother was an old
woman. She was so old that her face was wrinkled that at the
present it was difficult to believe she would ever had been
young and pretty. The author says that "she was like the winter
landscape in the mountains and exponce of pure white serenity
breathing peace and contentment..
His grandpa appeared too old and it was that he ever had a wife.." Singh was the only child at
that time. His parents had gone to live in the city leaving him behind the village under the care
of his grandmother. And would also feed him with Chappathi. The School as attached with a
temple. Finally in the evening, the author and the grandmother would walk back home feeding
the dogs. After a friendly relationship with his grandmother, he had to adopt a new life in the
city. Both of them was sent for to settle down in the city with his parents. The author went to
an English school but the grandmother never liked the way he was taught. In due course,
Singh went up to a University and because of that, he was given a separate room.Only during
the afternoon she would relax by feeding the sparrows with little pieces of bread. Later, Singh
went up abroad for higher studies which was for 5 long years. His also taught that it might e
the last physical contact between them when she came in the railway station to see him off.
Singh notices that even at this time when everyone is joyful about his return, grandmother's
happiest moments was with her sparrows. So she decides that she is not going to waste a
single moment by talking so she prayed. Quite suddenly, the rosary falls from her hand and
she exhaled her last breath and it was clear that she was no more. And to pay the last homage
to the grandmother, thousands of sparrows gathered in and around her room. They don't even
bother to notice the read pieces thrown at them. Along with her funeral, the sparrows flew
away.
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The portrait of a lady
Explanation:
The portrait of a lady is the story that is real and written in a story mode. It is the story of
wri9ters grandmother Khushwant Singh.
The writer grandmother was an old lady. This story revolve around the life of writer
grandmother and writer childhood.
The bonding of writer and his grandmother is shown in this story. Writer loves his grandmother
very much. He believed that his grandmother was old from beginning because he always seen
her in same condition from the beginnings.
This story shows the beautiful relation of grandmother and writer.
The story tell us that how become a beautiful relation between a grandmother and a grandson.
Justify the title "the portrait of
the lady"
“The Portrait of a Lady” describes
the relationship that the author
shared with his grandmother. As a
young boy he found it difficult to
fathom that once upon a time his
grandmother was also beautiful
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