How I taught My Grandmother to Read Class 9 PPT

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Sudha Murthy was born in 1950 in shiggaon in North
Karnataka. A prolific writer in Kannada , she has
written seven novels , four technical books , three
travelogues and two collections of short stories. Her
previous English books “ Wise and Otherwis e” has
been translated into thirteen Indian languages . Her
stories deal with common lives and human values
such as charity , kindness and self - realization. As a
sensitive writer , she writes about the suffering of the
people. The main characters in all her books are highly
educated , non-compromising , highly principled
women.
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Sudha Murthy was born in 1950 in shiggaon in North
Karnataka. A prolific writer in Kannada , she has
written seven novels , four technical books , three
travelogues and two collections of short stories. Her
previous English books “ Wise and Otherwis e” has
been translated into thirteen Indian languages . Her
stories deal with common lives and human values
such as charity , kindness and self - realization. As a
sensitive writer , she writes about the suffering of the
people. The main characters in all her books are highly
educated , non-compromising , highly principled
women.
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read is a
fictional narrative or a short story written by
famous Indian prolific fiction author Sudha Murthy.
This story was published in the book How I Taught
My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories in the year
2004 by Penguin Books India. Later on this story was
included in the Class 9 English Communicative
CBSE Syllabus. This story narrates the incident
where the author recalls that how she had taught her
illiterate grandmother to read.
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Sudha Murthy was born in 1950 in shiggaon in North
Karnataka. A prolific writer in Kannada , she has
written seven novels , four technical books , three
travelogues and two collections of short stories. Her
previous English books “ Wise and Otherwis e” has
been translated into thirteen Indian languages . Her
stories deal with common lives and human values
such as charity , kindness and self - realization. As a
sensitive writer , she writes about the suffering of the
people. The main characters in all her books are highly
educated , non-compromising , highly principled
women.
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read is a
fictional narrative or a short story written by
famous Indian prolific fiction author Sudha Murthy.
This story was published in the book How I Taught
My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories in the year
2004 by Penguin Books India. Later on this story was
included in the Class 9 English Communicative
CBSE Syllabus. This story narrates the incident
where the author recalls that how she had taught her
illiterate grandmother to read.
The grandmother in the story was sixty-two years old when
the narrator taught her the Kannada alphabet. She was
illiterate and got married at an early age , and , then bore
children. However , as and when she regretted not being
sent to school , she made sure that her children and
grandchildren studied well. She had never visited to Kashi
and thus , was very interested in knowing about the story of
the novel Kashi Yatre which was published in segments in
the Karamveera , the weekly magazine. She was a strong-
willed and determined lady who worked very hard and
practiced very sincerely in order to learn Kannada.
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Sudha Murthy was born in 1950 in shiggaon in North
Karnataka. A prolific writer in Kannada , she has
written seven novels , four technical books , three
travelogues and two collections of short stories. Her
previous English books “ Wise and Otherwis e” has
been translated into thirteen Indian languages . Her
stories deal with common lives and human values
such as charity , kindness and self - realization. As a
sensitive writer , she writes about the suffering of the
people. The main characters in all her books are highly
educated , non-compromising , highly principled
women.
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read is a
fictional narrative or a short story written by
famous Indian prolific fiction author Sudha Murthy.
This story was published in the book How I Taught
My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories in the year
2004 by Penguin Books India. Later on this story was
included in the Class 9 English Communicative
CBSE Syllabus. This story narrates the incident
where the author recalls that how she had taught her
illiterate grandmother to read.
The grandmother in the story was sixty-two years old when
the narrator taught her the Kannada alphabet. She was
illiterate and got married at an early age , and , then bore
children. However , as and when she regretted not being
sent to school , she made sure that her children and
grandchildren studied well. She had never visited to Kashi
and thus , was very interested in knowing about the story of
the novel Kashi Yatre which was published in segments in
the Karamveera , the weekly magazine. She was a strong-
willed and determined lady who worked very hard and
practiced very sincerely in order to learn Kannada.
practiced very sincerely in order to learn Kannada.
Within a promised time span , she could read and write
very well. She touched the of her teacher , her
granddaughter , as a mark of respect and gifted her a
gift of frock material. This shows that she knew her
scriptures well which says that a teacher should be
respected , irrespective of the gender and age. This
shows that she was humble, grateful and cultured.