When my parents were comfortably settled in the city, they sent for us. That was a turning-
point in our friendship. Although we shared the same room, my grandmother no longer
came to school with me. I used to go to an English school in a motor bus. There were no dogs
in the streets and she took to feeding sparrows in the courtyard of our city house.
As the years rolled by we saw less of each other. For some time she continued to wake me up
and get me ready for school. When I came back she would ask me what the teacher had
taught me. I would tell her words and little things of western science and learning, the law
of gravity, Archimedes' Principle, the world being round, etc. This made her unhappy. She
could not help me with my lessons. She did not believe in the things they taught at the
English school and was distressed that there was no teaching about God and the scriptures.
One day I announced that we were being given music lessons. She was very disturbed. To
her music had lewd associations. It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant
for gentlefolk. She said nothing but her silence meant disapproval. She rarely talked to me
after that.
When I went up to University, I was given a room of my own. The common link of
friendship was snapped. My grandmother accepted her seclusion with resignation. She
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