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How I Taught My Grandmother to Read | Sudha Murthy | Communicative English | Class IX | IN ENGLISH

Picture credits: Aasoka How I Taught My Grandmother to Read by Sudha Murthy - CBSE English Class 9 Fiction - 1. Sudha Murthy is an Indian social worker and author. Murthy began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and a member of public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation. Born: August 19, 1950 (age 63), Shiggaon (North Karnataka) Spouse: N. R. Narayana Murthy [ INFOSYS Founder- Chairman ] Education: Indian Institute of Science, BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Cornell University, USA A prolific writer in Kannada, Sudha has written several Novels, travelogues, and short stories. Equally versatile in English, her book 'Wise and Otherwise' has been translated into 13 Indian languages. Her stories center around abiding values like CHARITY , KINDNESS, AND SELF-REALISATION. The protagonists in all her books are highly educated, principled women, with unwavering integrity. Varanasi, Benares, Banaras, and Kashi are the various names of this most sacred of seven pilgrimage sites that Hindus aspire to visit during their lifetime. The Kashi-Vishwanath temple situated here is considered to guarantee one a straight 'ticket' to heaven ! To see the Ganges at sunrise is a magnificent experience! People go mid-stream, and watch the Sun shimmering on the gentle lapping waves --From a deep red, to a deep orange, then a bright orange, yellow, and finally a fiery bright Gold ---almost setting the river on fire! Hindus have an ardent belief that it is very fortunate to be cremated on the banks of the Ganga; they believe that their soul directly trans-migrates to Vaikunth (Heaven). This quaint story is centered around her sixty-two year old grandmother who was unable to read or write, since she never went to school. However, she was very keen to have a serialized story read out from a weekly magazine. She intently listened to the story with great awe, and identified herself with the novel's protagonist. When twelve year old Sudha had to go away to a neighboring village for a week, the story-telling sessions got disrupted. Her grandmother was in tears, as she could not read! She resolved to learn to read and write, and become independent; she set herself a dead-line of becoming literate by Dussehra , and strived hard to learn Kannada --right from the alphabets. Finally, on the day of Saraswati Puja (the Godess of Learning), the grandmother reverentially touched the feet of her teacher, her twelve-year old 'Guru', and read the opening pages of the book with apparent ease! Despite her age, the old lady had the humility to respect her teacher, with a 'namaskaar' ! Question 1. Why did the narrator and the other people in the village wait eagerly for the bus? Answer: The narrator and the other people waited eagerly because it brought the papers, the weekly magazine, and post. Question 2. How do we know that her grandparents’ village was very remote? Answer: The morning paper was received in the afternoon, the weekly magazine came a day late, and the transport system was not good. Question 3. Who speaks the line: “The happiness Kashi” (para 3). What does the line show about the lady’s character? Answer: These lines are spoken by the old lady in the novel Kashi Yatre. It shows how wise, magnanimous, and compassionate the lady was. She sacrifices her deepest desire to go to Kashi for the happiness of an orphan girl. This act of hers expresses her selflessness and her humane quality which is that the highest ideal of love does not expect anything in return. Question 4. Why had the grandmother not gone to school? Answer: The grandmother had lost her mother as a young girl and her father had married her off at a very young age. Very soon, she had children and there had been no time to go to school. Also, girls were rarely sent to school in those days. Question 5. Why was the grandmother so upset when her granddaughter went away to attend a wedding? Answer: The grandmother felt frustrated and was upset because she could not read the next episode of her favourite story that was serialized in the magazine, thus, she had to wait for her granddaughter to return and read it out. Question 6. How do we know that the grandmother was determined to read? Answer: We know that the grandmother was determined to read as it was her who approached her granddaughter to teach her, keeping her embarrassment aside. She also set a deadline by which she would learn to read, and started the process from the very next day. Question 7. How did the granddaughter react to her grandmother’s request to teach her to read? Answer: At first, she made fun of her but seeing her grandmother’s determination to overcome all obstacles, she started teaching her in earnest.