Question

Ask the teacher or a peer to read aloud the following passage. The passage can be read aloud more than once. • Notice the theme and style of writing. • Take down notes while listening. Then using your notes, tell your partner the summary of what you have heard. My great aunt Doluma had "tasted" a police lathi-charge during the freedom struggle. I knew her as an old woman in a spotless white khadi sari, with cropped grey hair, blackrimmed glasses, her lips stained with paan. Her real name was Dr Phulrenu Guha. After she died, we discovered she had received a doctorate from Sorbonne in 1938. Most of us just knew her as Doluma. I called her mantrithakurma or minister-grandmother because she had once held a post in the Union Government of India. I won’t pretend she was the cuddly grandma who told us fairy tales. She hopped on and off jeeps even in her 80s and went on the campaign trail in rural Bengal. She was blunt, out spoken and no nonsense. (Source: ‘Have you had your dose of vitamin’ P. Sandip Roy, livemint, Saturday, 16 March, 2019)

Answer 1

Explanation:

The story is about a woman named Doluma who was a freedom fighter. Her real name is Dr. Phulrenu Guha and in 1938, she received a doctorate from Sorbonne. She is a woman with white kadi saree, blackrimmed glasses, her hair is cropped and grey and her lips are with paan stain. She once served as a minister in the Union government, so she is also known as mantrithakurma. She is not the one saying fairy tales, she is an out-spoken woman.