Plot of the portrait of the lady by khushwant singh
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In this story, narrator is portraying the character of his grandmother. When narrator was a small kid, he observes his grandmother as a terribly old lady with wrinkles on her face. It was difficult of narrator to believe his grandmother was a young and beautiful lady once upon a time as said by people around him. She was fat and bent.
Narrator when he was a kid was staying with his grandmother as his parents went to live in the city. Narrator explains her as not pretty but beautiful by her grace.
When his parents were well settled in the city, they sent for him and his grandmother to the city. In the city the narrator and his grandmother shared the same room but now she was not there to drop him to the school
After school when narrator went to University, he got his own room to study. So the grandmother felt alone but she accepted it and get used to with it. She spent these days by feeding small birds in verandah.
One day she fell ill and she told that her end is near. She died peacefully. She was cremated in a funeral. She was missed by even the sparrows that she used to feed.
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