A prose Piece of Class XI (Supplementary Reader). PowerPoint presentation is made to understand the chapter easily.

1. Ranga’s Marriage
A Story by: Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
A PowerPoint presentation by: Mrinal Ghosh, PGT (Eng)
Under Directorate of Secondary Education, Govt of Tripura.

2. Ranga’s Marriage
Masti Venkatesa Iyengar was a well-known
writer in Kannada language. He was the
fourth among Kannada writers to be honored
with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary
honor conferred in India. He was popularly
referred to as Maasti Kannadada Aasti which
means "Maasti, Kannada's Treasure"
Born: 06 June, 1891, Died: 06 June, 1986
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3. Ranga’s Marriage
This chapter is all about life in villages where
child marriage is still a common practice. It is
an interesting story of how a person
manipulates to get a young boy married to
an eleven-year-old-girl. It revolves around a
boy namely Ranga, an accountant’s son,
who returns back from Bangalore after six
months, having completed his higher
studies.
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4. Ranga’s Marriage
A huge crowd of people gathers around his
home to see whether there is any changes
occurred in him or not and to see how
fluently he speaks in English. People of the
remote village Hosahalli even start touching
him to make sure that he is not changed.
When the narrator meets him, he asks about
his view of marriage.
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5. Ranga’s Marriage
To his surprise, Ranga has different view
about marriages. According to him, one
should get married to a
girl who is mature enough
to understand the things
and couple should look
good together.
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6. Ranga’s Marriage
The narrator resolves that he will try his level
best to get Ranga married. For that, he
purposefully introduces Ratna, Rama Rao’s
niece, an-eleven-year-old
girl who is well-versed in
singing and playing
musical instruments.
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7. Ranga’s Marriage
When Ranga sees her, he falls in love and
starts enquiring about the girl. The narrator,
Shyama, deliberately says that she is
married to make Ranga realize and feel the
importance of marriage and to change his
view about marriage.
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8. Ranga’s Marriage
Having known that Ratna is married, Ranga
feels depressed and does not talk to others
for few days. Then, the narrator takes him to
Shashtri ji, who is already foretold everything
by the narrator about the girl Ranga loves
and the things which Shastri ji has to tell
Ranga in order to impress him & to win his
confidence.
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9. Ranga’s Marriage
When they meet Shastri, the priest tells him
that he seems to have fallen in love with a
girl namely Ratna. Ranga gets shocked
when he hears all about that but regrets as
Ratna is already married.
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10. Ranga’s Marriage
But the narrator soon tells Ranga that he
was unaware of the fact that Ratna is
unmarried and soon they get married
irrespective of their age.
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11. Ranga’s Marriage
After one year, they
are blessed with a son
who is named after the
narrator (Shyama).
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12. Ranga’s Marriage
• What reason does the narrator give for
calling his narration “Ranga’s Marriage”?
• What does the writer say about the
Indians aping the West?
• What kind of bride was Ranga looking
for? Why?
• Explain : “ There’s greater truth in that
shastra than we imagine”.
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