Summary of the portrait of a lady
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Khushwant Singh draws here an interesting portrait of his grandmother. He presents her as a tender, loving and deeply religious old lady. Singh says that his grandmother was an old woman. She was so old that her face was wrinkled that at the present it was difficult to believe she would ever had been young and pretty. The author says that "she was like the winter landscape in the mountains and exponce of pure white serenity breathing peace and contentment.. His grandpa appeared too old and it was that he ever had a wife.. Singh was the only child at that time. His parents had gone to live in the city leaving him behind the village under the care of his grandmother. And would also feed him with Chappathi. The School as attached with a temple. Finally in the evening, the author and the grandmother would walk back home feeding the dogs. After a friendly relationship with his grandmother, he had to adopt a new life in the city. Both of them was sent for to settle down in the city with his parents. The author went to an English school but the grandmother never liked the way he was taught. In due course, Singh went up to a University and because of that, he was given a separate room.Only during the afternoon she would relax by feeding the sparrows with little pieces of bread. Later, Singh went up abroad for higher studies which was for 5 long years. His also taught that it might e the last physical contact between them when she came in the railway station to see him off. Singh notices that even at this time when everyone is joyful about his return, grandmother's happiest moments was with her sparrows. So she decides that she is not going to waste a single moment by talking so she prayed. Quite suddenly, the rosary falls from her hand and she exhaled her last breath and it was clear that she was no more. And to pay the last homage to the grandmother, thousands of sparrows gathered in and around her room. They don't even bother to notice the read pieces thrown at them. Along with her funeral, the sparrows flew away.
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The author wrote this chapter as a pen portrait of his grandmother. She had been so much old that she could not get any older. She had wrinkled skin. The author couldn't believe the fact that she had been young , pretty and even had a husband. The stories which had been told by her about her plays of childhood appeared like the fables of the Prophets. According to the author she had always been short, fat and slightly bent. She used to wear white clothes and had a rosary of beads with her. She was a very religious lady.
This story is in three phases. The first first face is of their relationship in the village. She wake up in the morning and got him ready for school. She give him breakfast to eat also she used to accompany him at school and help him with his studies.
The second phase of their relationship begin when they went to city in the author got admission in English School. Now grandmother could not help him in studies anymore. She used to ask him about his education at school.
The third page is when she learnt that the author was learning music at school. Then, she really talked with author.
After that for higher education author went abroad but he didn't find his grandmother being sentimental. When he returned back to the country is found that grandmother was still the same. On that day she did not play but collected the women from neighbourhood and started to sing. She fall ill and gota mild fever and the doctor said that she would be fine. But the grandmother declined and told author and his family that it was her end. Before the protest she was gone. Even the sparrows expressed their sorrow by sitting quiet all over the room.