Cbse class 11 presentation

1. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
-Khushwant singh
-byYashika Soni Roll no.-20

2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 Famous writer in English
 Born in 1915 in Hadali (in Pakistan now)
 Educated in the Government College, Lahore, and at
King’s College, Cambridge University, &The Inner
Temple in London
 Practised law at Lahore High Court for several years
 Founder editor of ‘ Yojana’ (1951-53), the ‘Illustrated
Weekly of India’ (1979-80),Chief Editor of New Delhi
(1979-80), and editor of the ‘HindustanTimes’ (1980-83)
 Saturday column ‘With Malice towards One and All’ in
the ‘HindustanTimes’ - one of the most popular
columns of the day

3. -THE PORTRAIT OF THE LADY
 Lady - a woman of good social position
 Portrait - a painting, drawing,
photograph, or engraving of a person,
especially one depicting only the face or
head and shoulders.
 The Portrait of a Lady - Khushwant
Singh’s grandmother
 Simple and exemplary

4. OUR LOVE FOR GRANDMOTHERS
 What is very special about
grandmothers?
 Are their lives worth recording?
 Do they make the stuff that is required
for writing a story?
 Do they interest readers?
 Very dear to all
 Loved and adored more than parents

5. Khushwant Singh’s grandmother
“My grandmother, like everybody’s
grandmother, was an old woman.”

6. WHAT THE GRANDMOTHER LOOKS LIKE
 Face - a crisscross of wrinkles
 Back bent
 Prayers on lips
 Telling the beads of a rosary
 A winter landscape in the mountains
 ‘An expanse of pure white serenity’

7. Khushwant Singh’s childhood in the
village with his grandmother
 Left to the care of his grandmother
 A constant companion in the childhood
 Prepared him for school
 Accompanied him to school
 Village school attached to the temple
 The alphabet and prayer sung
 Village dogs fed with chapatis by the grandmother

8. UNIVERSITY
 A room of his own
 Grandmother accepting her seclusion
with resignation
 The happiest house of the
grandmother
 Feeding the sparrows in the courtyard
 The sparrows creating a veritable
bedlam of chirrupings
 Birds given frivolous rebukes

9. GOING FOR OUTER STUDIES
 Farewell at the railway station
 Grandmother unsentimental
 Khushwant’s fears about his grandmother
 Grandmother lost in prayer
 A kiss on the forehead
 last sign physical contact ?

10. Return from England
 Received warmly by the grandmother at the railway station
 Hardly any noticeable in her
 Evening spent in feeding the birds as usual
 Unusal Change in the routine that evening
 Women from the neighbourhood gathered
 The singing of song celebrating the home-coming of
warriors
 Pryers ignored for the first time temporarily

11. GRANDMOTHER’S DEADTH
 The grandmother taken ill the next day
 The doctoor’s assurance
 The grandmother predicting her death
 Her request to leave her alone to offer prayers
 The family’s objections
 The grandmother breathing her lost during the course of prayers

12. A SIMPLE BUT ADORABLE GRANDMOTHER
 A lady with no formal education
 Unimposing, kind and caring
 No preacher
 Orthodox and religious
 Prejudices about music lesson
 Belief in religious education
 Never a liability
 Concern for dogs and sparrows
 Simple life with minimum needs
 A lady of few words

13. Thank you!