Question 1.
“Religion was the dominant feature of her life.” Comment on this statement in regard to Khushwant Singh’s grandmother as projected in ‘The Portrait of a Lady’.
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Answer 1:
The first introduction of the grandmother made by the author depicts her telling the beads of her rosary with her lips muttering an inaudible prayer.
As the custodian of her grandchild in the village, she said her morning prayers while engaged in the task of bathing and dressing her grandson. While her grandson studied, the grandmother studied the scriptures. She also disapproved of the education at the English school because of the absence of religious instructions. In her last moments, she detached herself from her immediate family and preferred making peace with God. Besides prayers, she was given to animal care, by feeding stray dogs at the temple door and sparrows in the city home. Thus, her religion stepped beyond ritual to one of showing kindness to the tiniest creatures of God. Indeed, the grandmother was religious in body and spirit.
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