The Portrait of a Lady & A Photograph

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Khushwant Singh is the author of 'The Portrait of a Lady'. He was a renowned Indian author and journalist known for his humor and candid writing style.

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The grandmother was short, fat, and slightly bent. Her face was criss-crossed with wrinkles. She had silver locks scattered untidily over her pale, puckered face. She always wore spotless white clothe…

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Phase 1: Village life - They were constantly together, she took him to school attached to the temple. Phase 2: City life - They shared the same room but she no longer went to school with him; he atten…

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Three reasons: 1) She could not help him with his English lessons and Western science. 2) She did not believe in what they taught at English school. 3) She was distressed that there was no teaching ab…

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She was very disturbed because to her, music had lewd associations. She believed it was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk. She said nothing but her silence showed disapp…

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Three ways: 1) She sat by her spinning wheel from sunrise to sunset, spinning and reciting prayers. 2) She rarely left her wheel to talk to anyone. 3) In the afternoon, she relaxed to feed the sparrow…

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Every afternoon, she sat in the verandah breaking bread into little bits. Hundreds of sparrows would collect around her, creating a 'veritable bedlam of chirrupings.' Some perched on her legs, shoulde…

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The evening before her death, she did not pray (for the first time since the author knew her). Instead, she collected neighborhood women, got an old drum, and sang for several hours, thumping the sagg…