Question

Ismat Chugtai’s ‘Kallu’ proves that people’s attitudes are dictated by money. Comment.

Answer 1

Answer:

Although not quite seven, Kallu did the work of grown man. He was shaken out of his sleep

early in the morning and, dressed only in an old, tattered shirt in winter with Abba’s old woollen

cap pulled down over his ears, looking like a midget, dripping at the nose, he promptly set to

work. Scared off by the cold water, he was always reluctant to wash his face, and just once in a

while he would carelessly rub the tips of his fingers over his teeth which remained permanently

coated with a thin film of mildew.