how was authors grandmother in her youth
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The three ways in which the author's grandmother spent her days after he grew up are: She lived alone in her room as she had accepted her loneliness quietly. She sat at her spinning wheel reciting prayers. In the afternoon, she would feed the sparrows for half an hour.
Khushwant Singh describes his grandmother as short ,fat and a little Stooped. He also describes her as being not pretty in the traditional sense but her serenity made her beautiful as she always used to chant silent prayers from beads of rosary. She was always in spotless white.
Because the author Khushwant Singh only saw his mother old . He had been seeing his mother old since 20 years. So it is hard for the author to believe that his grandmother was ones young and pretty.
It was hard for the author to believe that his grandmother was once young and pretty because he has never seen her childhood and adulthood photos. As the author was growing up, he saw his grandmother during her old age time and he believed that his grandmother appearance which he sees with help of his own eyes are true and the appearance described by her in stories are deceptive.