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Lecture Notes on The Portrait of a Lady

hello everyone again a very good evening can you hear me now? good evening everyone a very very very good evening now I can hear all the children tell me quickly I know that our mood got a little bad because of last class suddenly some issues came but it's okay I hope that Now there will be no issue. I hope and I pray.

So, all the kids come here. Quickly. Again, please like and share the class. Last class we got 1000 likes.

I am feeling so sad. But, it's okay. Let's hope that we will get 1000 likes on this class too. So, quickly all the kids come here.

Quickly. And again, like and share the class. Quickly. So now we are going to run this class in a very exciting way. Sometimes some glitches come, but I am glad that we have all sorted it together.

Good evening, good evening, good evening everyone. So let's start the class from the beginning. I was telling you how we are going to start the syllabus of your class 11th from today.

Now, you can take any stream, science, commerce, arts, any stream One thing which is going to be common to you is English Right? So, English is going to be common to you Today is your first class, chapter is The Portrait of a Lady I had told you this much Along with that, I had told you about your syllabus If you see your syllabus here, you have two books One is your Hornbill, my dear And the second is your snapshot Now there will be less chapters in the snapshot because This will be your supplementary book And in hornwell there will be more chapters Do you understand? And there will be poems in this As you can see The first chapter is done Photograph is done Then these two chapters are done These two are done So by doing this There are very few chapters In the English of class 11 as you can see But yes some of these chapters are a little complicated ok again I am requesting all my students please come back to the class and please like and share the class I am feeling very sad that our 1000 likes were dropped but ok since it is our first class so we keep the energy high we like and share the class energy comment section maybe the cotton head take a change channel so yeah happy I'm low lady's a shrewd o-ring a Sarah Sarah syllabus Joe hey Joe hey I'm channel payment saying a so my app co-lead a battery to keep least elegant Instagram go don't know about our outlook Jorjana kooky our archicast copy just not material a couple telegram pick last kebab mill Jaldi go China up 10th may 11th may 12th may know a You will get it on telegram All the questions and answers of MCRT that I will teach in today's class All the questions and answers of previous year Important questions and answers All the things my dear you will get on my telegram channel for free Ok and for all updates stay connected to both I have put the link in the description You can pick it up from there Come on Can we start Can I see a great yes ma'am with a fire emoji in the comment section Yes, and now there is no voice problem, tell me quickly and spam fire emoji once Then we are going towards our chapter and we will finish this chapter in less than an hour And you will have a lot of fun today, it is a very beautiful chapter But show me a little excitement, I have also become low So there should be a little better feel, right? Love you so much ma'am, love you too Sudha Alright, now it's fun, I feel like some living kids are in my class, now I feel like this, very good, very good guys, very good, okay, okay, okay, let's start quickly, and one voice problem is not there, right? Tell me this too, voice problem is not there now, right?

Shalu ji, very good, very good, very nice, like and share the class, keep on doing it. So kids, this chapter is very important for you to watch till the end We all love our grandparents Right? We love our grandparents a lot Because they protect us from our mother's beatings And they always support us So we love them a lot So, here also our writers present a portrait of their grandmother. Portrait means picture.

Meaning, how was she? What was her bond? These things are brought by Khushwant Singh. Now here she tells us that she was a very religious lady.

Now all the people we see, grandma or grandma, they are all religious. She has a lot of faith in God. You will see her praying and praying. Hee also, she tells in the same way that her grandmother was very religious.

She was a down to earth lady who believed in moral values. Now here, she tells her relationship with her grandmother. We know this in this chapter. Now we will see the first chapter. I hope you are listening to me and you will understand this chapter properly.

So tell me once if everyone's attention is on me. I am going to teach you line by line. I am not going to give you a summary here. I will tell you first.

So in today's class we are going to read line by line. Which is one line in your book. I am going to teach you that way.

Okay. Again voice problem. Now voice problem should not happen.

I have seen it after recording. Yes, you will get its important questions on telegram. You will also get its NCRT questions on telegram.

Okay? Yes. So, let's start.

Let's start. Now, first of all, my grandmother, like everybody's grandmother was an old woman. So, Khushwant Singh is my grandmother.

Rest of them were old like their grand mother Now everyone's grand mother is old, right? It's about two generations ago So here he is saying that she was old She had been old and wrinkled What is wrinkled? It means wrinkles on the face That she was old and along with that she had wrinkles on her face And he says that I have been 20 years That means when Khushwant Singh analyzed all these things for 20 years So he says that I have been looking at my grand mother like this for 20 years Now if you talk about me, I have always seen my grandmother as she was alive. I have seen her in old age.

Now I have not seen her youth or childhood. So here they are also saying that since 20 years, since I have been seeing my grandmother, I have been seeing her old and wrinkled. I can see her face the same way. You guys are not letting me study. Children are still saying voice problem, voice problem.

Do you still have voice problem, children? Oh, man. I will really cry now if something like this happens.

What is the problem? Let me listen. I will not be in mood then. Half of the kids are saying no and half of the kids are saying yes. I don't understand who is telling the truth and who is lying.

I am her grandmother. But they say that believing for me is very difficult. Now you see for yourself that we know that our grandmother was a child, she was young, she got married, she had children. But for us it is difficult to imagine that it is difficult to imagine or not, tell me quickly in the comment section.

Have you ever imagined that my grandmother was a child, how she looked like? Or how my grandmother looked like when she went to college or school in her youth? Now we know that this is reality but we can't imagine it because since we are born we have seen our grandparents as old So whoever tells that you know they had a husband, now we know that he was a grandfather but now the photo is hanging So we don't know, we have never seen it together so it is very hard to believe for him, that's how he is saying Now what is next, he says that the portrait of my grandfather, portrait means the normal photo is a mental piece, a shelf which is hanging on the shelf in the drawing room so I have never seen my grandfather so here in your exam also one question comes now exam is far from you and I will also give you pdf of questions if you will wait till last then you will know but here I am still telling you that from where the question can come so here only one question related to grandfather comes that tell me their appearance and more than this We haven't even discussed the grandfather in the entire chapter.

So how was grandfather? Now we can tell by looking at his photo that he used to wear a big turban. He used to wear loose fitting clothes.

He had a white beard which used to reach up to his chest. And he looked 100 years old. If you see his photo, at least he will look 100 years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have looked like this.

So he is saying that he didn't look like a person who could be his wife or children So now he is saying that whatever we can see in the photo, it seems like a 100-150 year old man, his wife and children cannot be He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren He is saying that he looks like he could be his grandchildren He must be being called a father Will he ever be young? So all this Khushwant Singh is trying to tell us Clear everyone? Come on, let's move ahead Now it is written as for my grandmother being young and pretty the thought was almost revolting Now here kids understand the thing properly The thought was almost revolting What is this line? This line means difficult to believe On which you can't believe So he is saying that for me to believe that my grandmother was never young or pretty It was very difficult to believe for me Okay She used to tell us about those games which she used to play as a child But she thinks it's absurd, absurd means silly I can't even imagine that my grandma used to play games And undignified, undignified means disrespectful She says that even listening to this I feel a weird feeling, that she used to play games But kids can't even imagine that my grandma It was normal and like us too Okay? And we treated it like the fables Fables means all the word meanings written below Short moral story of the prophet Prophet means about the saints So when grandma narrates stories She says that we listen to it like stories and forget it Okay?

So there are not even those short moral stories Like those small stories of the panchchandra Like those stories we would have listened to it and forgotten it because we don't believe that our grandma was a young girl and she used to play games If all the students are clear then please write yes in the comment section Class of 12th is at 8 pm on the channel And all my students please like and share the class And if everyone understood then please write yes ma'am I am getting a minor glitch which I am feeling. It is a minor glitch. If those kids keep coming in between, then compromise for today.

From today onwards, I am going to watch this whole class again. and whatever the issue is, I sort it with them Now at least we have completed today's class There is no point in sorting again and again Now what is written ahead She had always been short How was grandma looking? There is a question on her appearance too She was short, fat, slightly bent What was on her face? Criss-cross of wrinkles What does this mean?

Criss-cross means a lot of things Like this is the face, assume Now wrinkles here too I have explained it like this that there were many wrinkles on her face. No, we were certain, certain means sure. We were sure since we know that she is old.

Old so terribly old that she could not have grown older and stayed at the same age for 20 years. She is so old that she cannot be older than this. We feel that she has gone on pause for 20 years.

She has gone on pause for 20 years. She is not getting old because she is already at a level of old I feel so after seeing my grandma She could never have been pretty but she was always beautiful So what is he saying that I can't imagine my grandma pretty Okay, yes, she is very much you know Pretty means like we compliment But she was always beautiful Beautiful means when a person is good, he is beautiful from inside Means pretty means I am not able to imagine my grandma in terms of face She hobbled, hobbled means staggered About the house in spotless white Means wearing a white sari and she walks around the house One hand on her waist means on her waist To balance her stoop, stoop means to bend Means if she is walking like this, old lady So what is here, one hand is kept here Okay Now and the other telling the beads of a rosary. Beads means small pieces. And rosary means a garland.

So you must have seen a garland in the hands of the Brazour people who keep on chanting. So this is the same thing that one hand stays on their waist and the other hand keeps on chanting their garland. Let's move on children. Now next see what is written.

He silver locks. Locks means white hair. See below if there is any doubt in any word meaning.

I have already given you all the word meanings written down below Alright my dear? So see what is written He silver locks, means her silver white hair Scattered means scattered Untidily means That hair is not tied Not combed, hair is not tied Over her pale, pale means yellowish color Not bright on face, not colorful Bucked means again wrinkled face and lips constantly Constantly means their lips constantly move in inaudible prayer Now I always come and say am I audible? Inaudible means they can't hear Means their lips keep saying some prayers like this So here he tells that my hair is silver color which is scattered untidily means they don't comb their hair they just keep spreading it their face is not bright at all their face is yellow in colour and wrinkled and their lips are moving continuously while saying prayer, that prayer which you can't hear that is inaudible clear everyone, now look ahead yes she was beautiful when they say beautiful then that is enough she was like the winter landscape in the mountain an image of pure white Serenity, Grieving peace and contentment Now see what this line means They are being compared with winter landscape Have you ever seen snow in winter in mountains?

How everything looks calm, how everything looks beautiful Have you seen or not? Tell me quickly Tell me quickly Ma'am I can imagine how grandma was I am giving so much detail Yes Have you ever seen how beautiful it looks in winters if it is snowing and if it is peaceful? Yes, so they are comparing here.

Landscape means what is it? Scenery. So they are saying that the way the scenery looks perfect in winters, everything looks calm, the expanse is wide, white is visible everywhere, serene means calmness. We feel a different kind of peace Content means satisfaction We feel contentment after watching that movie Similarly, he tells his grandma Grandma is also wearing a white saree Seeing her also gives a sense of contentment and calmness Now the kids start talking He says that my grandma and I were very good friends Have you seen Bhootnaath? How many of you have seen the movie Bhootnaath?

Tell me in the comment section. In Bhootnaath, we saw how a child gets bonded with a ghost. But who is that ghost? Actually, it is of the age of a grandparent.

Amita Bachchan's role is of the age of a grandparent. She has a grandson, Dadaji. So, basically what I am trying to imply is that children get bonded with grandparents and with the elderly more.

So here also he is writing that my parents left me and my grandmother in the village They went to live in the city and my grandmother and I used to live together We used to live together She used to wake me up in the morning, she used to wake me up in the morning, she used to prepare me for school She used to say prayers to me in the morning In the monotonous Sing song, monotonous is a uniform. Same song, no ups and downs. Like we listen to songs now, sometimes it is high pitched, sometimes it is low pitched. What is she doing?

She is singing in the same song. So she is saying that she would sing prayers, while bathing me and dressing me, in a hope that I would listen and get to know it by heart. That I too might remember that prayer while listening. I listened because I love her voice but never bothered to learn it.

So he is saying that I only listen to prayer because I like their voice I never paid attention to that prayer Is that clear everyone? Okay? Let's move on What is written here? Then she would fetch my wooden slate So it is said that after that In olden days, children used to write on a slate Today we have a pen and paper But in olden days, they used to write on a slate So here it is being said that she would have brought my wooden slate Which she would have already washed and plastered with yellow chalk After that she would have brought a small ink pot and a red pen And would have tied them all in a bundle and would have held me After breakfast Now what would they do? They would have breakfast.

What would they have for breakfast? Thick. Meaning a thick, stale, means a thick chapati.

Okay, if anyone has eaten a thick chapati, quickly tell me in the comments. Meaning if it is a night bread and you have eaten it in the morning. Quickly tell me in the comment section.

Alright, so here we also used to eat like this If we have basi roti, we used to spread salt and ghee on it and eat it So they also spread butter and sugar on basi roti And after eating, they used to go to school So always, Khushwant Singh's grandmother used to drop them to school She carried a lot of stale bread with her for the village dogs. We will go ahead while feeding stale bread to the village dogs. Now what is next? My grandmother always went to school with me. Now here it is said that my grandmother always went to school with me.

Why would she go? Because the school was attached to the temple. Remember kids, who was the school attached to? School was attached to the temple. The priest taught Ask the alphabet and the morning prayer.

Now what does the priest teach them there? He teaches them about the alphabet and about the morning prayers. Alright, now the children sit horizontally.

That means they are sitting like this and on this side too. So the children would be sitting in two lines and what would they do? They would be singing the prayer together. Like what we do in the teacher class, we say good morning together.

All the children were studying and praying together Now what are they doing? It is being said that when I was doing this, my grandmother would sit in the temple and read religious scriptures The religious books related to God, my grandmother would read So did you understand the basics? What does grandma do?

She goes to school with our author and leaves him in school and the temple itself would be reading the scriptures and when both of them would have finished their work they would have come back home This time the village dogs would meet us at the temple door. And where were the village dogs meeting us? At the temple door.

They followed us. That means the dogs would follow them to their home. Grawling means to make them run. And fighting with each other for the chapatis we threw to them. So we feed them bread.

They were fighting with each other. They were making each other run for bread. For the bread we were throwing at them, they were making each other run and fighting with each other.

Let's go. When my parents were comfortably settled in the city, they sent for us. Sent means called us.

I hope everyone has understood the village's story. Now all the children will tell me, what did you understand from the story we have read so far? How was their bond?

Let me see. All the children, the story we have read so far, what do you think was their bond? We saw that you were getting up and sitting together, it was a good bond. This was exactly like your class 10th bond.

Now what do you mean by that? That till class 10th, all your friends were your best friends. That you are getting up together, sitting together, having lunch together.

It is possible that some children go to school together, they come from school together, you are doing tuition together, you are doing life class together. Now what will happen? Streams will be different.

Right? So it is possible that your friends take science, you take commerce, or you will be a part of humanity so everyone's schedule will change somewhere right, so here grandma and khushwant singh's routine was same they are getting up, eating, she is bathing them, preparing them, leaving school so when someone is with someone the bond is very good what is happening now, now their parents have called them to the city they left them there Now they called her to the city. And this was the turning point.

The paper asks what was the turning point of friendship. The turning point was that her parents called her to the city when she went to the city. Now what happened? Although we shared the same room, my grandmother no longer came to school with me.

She said that the city has come, the school has separated. Now you know in cities that either the school van comes or the school bus comes. So even though she is saying that we were living in the same room. Okay, we are living in the same room but here my grandma is... She is not able to go to school.

This is the first change. Now what is the second change? English medium was added to the school. Earlier what was being taught in the school?

Things related to God was also being taught. Prayers related to God also. Now they have added an English medium in the school.

Bus is coming to pick them up. There is no dog on the streets. Because in cities you know who comes out of their homes. And what did grandma do?

Now there are no dogs, so she started feeding sparrows. They started feeding the sparrows, they started feeding them seeds in the courtyard of the house. Now what happens next?

As the years rolled by, as the years passed, we saw less of each other. Less of each other means that our bond started breaking somewhere. Now we couldn't meet each other so much despite living in the same house.

Why? Because Khushwant Singh was growing up, he was making friends, he had his life, his studies, now he has grown up, so now the talks with each other have also decreased. For some time, he is saying that for some time she would have picked me up, she would have made me ready for school, when I would come back, she would have asked me for some time, that means for some years she asked me what I studied today. Because now she is not able to go to school, she is not able to see from herself what is being taught to the author, so she would have asked him what he studied today. So, what is this?

So, the students continued to study. But what happened next? He said that I would teach him English words.

And would teach him a little more about science. About science. Would teach him Law of Gravity.

Now, he would become very unhappy. Why would he become unhappy? Because, first of all, he was not being taught about God.

And secondly, she could not help me with my lessons. Because, she did not know English. So, she used to feel helpless. Because, now, like a gown, My mother could not help me in my studies.

What happened next? She did not believe in the things they taught at the English school. She did not believe in these things at all.

She thought that all the useless things were being taught in the English school. Hee nothing related to God, religion is being taught. And was distressed, means upset that there was no teaching about God and scriptures means religious books.

One day I announced that we were being given music lesson Now they said that I came home from school and I announced that Look, from now on we will be given music lessons in our school Now kids, in today's time we are not giving music lessons People are supporting her but it was not like that before So, she got disturbed after listening to this She was saying that where are we going? This is not a bhajan related to God, we are giving a music lesson She thought that music is not made for everyone Music is for beggars and for useless people So, she got disturbed after listening to this To her, music had livid associations Means it is very vulgar According to her, music is a very vulgar thing It was the monopoly of Harlots. Monopoly means exclusively, only for. According to them, music is only for whom? Hee, Harlots is not good people and beggar means you know.

And this gentle folk means not music for good people. So, they didn't say anything but they became quiet. Okay, so it's not like they showed their objection that why are they teaching music. They became silent but they understood everything.

by disapproval she really talked to me after that so here the writer says that after that he didn't talk to me much my grandmother did it much less now what happens next his school ends now like you guys after two years oh means after one year the school will end so he goes to the university when he goes to the university then he is given his own room that okay the boy has grown up now separate his room now what happens the common language Snap means to break. So what was the common link of friendship? Room. Yes, there was a room so there was a lot of conversation.

Now they are not staying in the room. Both have become separate. So the common link of friendship that they had kept closed, that too broke.

My grandmother accepted her seclusion. Seclusion means loneliness. My grandmother did not say anything. What did she do to this thing? She accepted it in herself.

With resignation. What does resignation mean? That means grandma took her loneliness in peace and accepted her fate She accepted it as it was her fate She didn't object to it She didn't raise any voice She didn't say anything She thought it was her fate and she didn't say anything Is that clear everyone?

Did you understand? Are you getting bored? I am feeling very sad, last class we had 800 students, this time only 500 students are not going I am feeling very sad that our last class got spoiled But it's okay Guys, you are understanding, right? There is no issue of voice, I hope Okay Let's move ahead She rarely left her spinning wheel to talk to anyone Rarely means not often Very less, almost Now what she used to do? She would always be in her spinning wheel and would not talk to anyone.

She would mostly stay awake and quiet. From sunrise to sunset, she sat by her wheel spinning and reciting prayers. She would only relax in the afternoon when she would feed the sparrows.

While she sat in the veranda breaking the bread into little bits, she would break the bread into small pieces for the sparrows. In this much, hundreds of little birds, means the very heavy number of birds would come to the veranda and what would they do? Veritable means real.

Badlam is what? Suddenly a lot of noise. What do those birds make a lot of noise for?

Chirping means they make a sound. So they are saying that when grandma would come and sit in the veranda in the afternoon, a lot of birds would come around them and make a lot of noise. Now look ahead, it is written that some birds sit on the feet of the person, on the shoulders, on the head of the person. But grandma never makes anyone run away, never makes anyone shoo like this, okay?

She smiles. It used to be the happiest half hour of the day for her. And that was the most peaceful and happy half an hour of the day for her. Alright, next look kids.

When I decided to go abroad for the further studies Now what is written here? Let's see So it is written that when I decided to go abroad for further studies I was sure that my grandmother would be upset Because I was going for 5 years And at her age one could never tell So what is he saying here? At her age means she has become so much preserved One could never tell means she can be called anytime Right, that something can happen to her at any time So I am going for 5 years I was feeling bad but I was sure that my grandma will also be upset She will also feel bad that I am going for 5 years for my future plan But my grandmother was not even sentimental Not even sentimental means she was not even a little emotional She came to drop me off at the railway station but did not talk or show any emotion. But neither did the kids talk to me nor did they show any sort of emotion in front of me.

He lips moved in prayer so her lips were still singing prayers. He mind was lost in prayer. He finger was busy telling the beads of her rosary and she was still constantly chanting the mala. So what does it mean to say that my grandma came to drop me off? to railway station, platform but what did he do?

he didn't talk to me at all or showed any emotion he was silent he kissed my forehead very quietly and when I went I cherished the moist imprint as perhaps the last sign of physical contact between us means the one who kissed on the forehead he is saying that this is the last sign of physical contact maybe if I come after 5 years I don't want to see my grandma here She is also scared that something might happen to her grandma. But she is saying that the last kiss she gave me, I am taking it with me. But that was not so. But she is saying that this did not happen. After 5 years when I came back, grandma was at the station to pick me up.

Nothing happened. She did not look a day older. She did not look old at all.

She still had no time to think. for words and while she clasped me clasped means she hugged me so she is saying that she has not said anything to me yet she just hugged me and even then when she hugged me what I was able to hear was the sound of prayers that what she is doing now is reciting her prayers inaudible way she is saying let's move ahead even on the first day of my arrival her happiest moments were with her sparrows So he is saying that I came home on the first day and I thought she will talk to me, she will sit with me and ask me a little bit. But on the first day also, her happiest time was with her sparrows. Because of which she used to feed longer, means half an hour earlier, now she started spending more time with them.

And what would the sparrows do here? Light minded rebukes means scold Means she does such things that even grandma scolds her Now suppose I have a pet So I scold her Saying are you mad? What are you doing? So she also does that Light minded means she talks to Spiros with love and she scolds him Rebuke means scolding Let's move ahead In the evening Now guys here comes the turn of our story Everything is going well till now. There is a gap between them.

We saw this. But overall, it is going well. Now, we will see the twist in the story. What happened in the evening?

A change came over her. Change means a change in her. What change? She didn't pray. She didn't pray.

She Instead, all the women of the neighborhood collected them, took an old drum and started singing. Now whose songs did they sing? You all will write in the comments. Warriors. Homecoming of Warriors.

They started singing songs of warriors. They kept playing drums for many hours. The sagging skin of the Jaldi drum.

What does this mean? The drum. She was not in good condition, she had loose skin She kept on playing that song And she kept on singing the songs of Homecoming of Warriors We had to persuade Persuade means to convince someone We had to convince Dadaji That brother, stop or else you will get very tired Please stop, you are singing songs since morning Now what happened, that was the first time Now author says that this was the first time She did not pray.

That she did not pray. So kids, this happened for the first time. The next morning she was sick and ill.

The next morning she was sick and she had a fever. The doctor called her. The doctor said that it is nothing.

The fever is normal. It will go away. But my grandmother thought differently.

But grandmother felt something different. She believed that her time has come. Kids, those who are going to go, they come to know that now my end is near. So here also it is written that Grandma is not going to go.

She said that since only a few hours before the close of the last chapter of her life, she had omitted to pray and she was not going to waste any more time talking to us. So what did she say? That I didn't pray a little hour before my death. Yesterday she didn't pray, she was singing. So she said that I couldn't pray.

So I missed her. I don't want to waste more time talking to anyone. Leave me alone. I have to go praying.

We protested. We protested means we told them that Grandma, what are you talking about? You are absolutely fine.

You chill. But here she ignored. What did she do? She ignored.

She lay down peacefully on her bed and started praying. She started chanting her beads. Even before we could suspect, meaning very soon, suspect means doubt, that we didn't get time at all, what happened soon?

He lips stopped moving. He lips, in which the prayer was going on, that stopped moving. Did you understand all this?

Okay, so here her lips were completely closed, closed means the prayers she was singing, now those prayers are not being sung. The rosary means the garland fell from her hands, it is written lifeless fingers. This is how you can understand that she is no more, means there is no life in her hands. A peaceful color spread on her face, means when someone dies, the color disappears, right? So it is written that a yellowish color came on her face and we knew that.

We found out that grandma is dead. We lifted her off the bed. This is a tradition. It happened with my grandmother too.

When someone dies, they lift her off the bed and put her down. So here also, they are saying that according to the rituals, according to the customs and traditions, they lift the dead body and put it down. Put it on the ground.

And covered them with a red cloth. After a few hours, everyone was shocked, sad and then we left her alone to make arrangements for her funeral. Then we went to prepare for her last rites.

In the evening, when we came back, we saw a crewed stretcher in the room. We brought a stretcher on which we would carry her. The sun was setting, the sun was setting.

It was a little bit, suppose the sun is setting here. The light was coming from the room and the light was coming from the room. The light was golden.

If you have ever seen the sunset, like my room lights come to the room. So the light was coming to the room. We stopped halfway in the courtyard.

Now we are going and we stopped halfway. We stopped in the courtyard. Why did we stop? What did we see? We saw that in their room, where their dead body is lying, there is a big...

To the extent that thousands of sparrows sat scattered on the floor. There were thousands of sparrows in the whole veranda and their room. There was no children. And they were not even whining.

They also knew that their grandmother had died and they had come to mourn. We felt sorry for the birds. We also felt bad for the birds.

My mother fetched some bread for them. And what did my mother do for them? She brought them to the garden.

She broke the bread into small pieces like my grandmother used to do and threw to them. And we gave it to the birds. The sparrows took no notice. Sparrows didn't want bread. They say that animals are more loyal to humans.

So they didn't want bread and they didn't even pay attention to the bread. When we carried my grandmother's corpse off, just like we carried the dead body. As soon as we took the dead body, sparrows also left. So they didn't eat bread at all.

That too flew away. Next morning, the sweeper, that is, the cleaning man, he swept the bread and put it in the dustbin. So here, our chapter is complete. Quickly, all the children will comment quickly.

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You don't have to wander here and there. I will give you the pdf, all these are the question answers Now this is also because I was late in class because I had to enlarge each page So now these are the question answers, I will give you on pdf, by reading you will not remember the question answers You can pick up all these question answers from my telegram See this in it, there are also important question answers There are also question answers of NCRT in front of you Hee we have long question and answer, I have to increase it again and again Now let's come to MCQ I will do MCQ with you and then we will end the class You will get the question and answers on telegram I have explained the chapter to you line by line Today we have some issues in the class due to which the class should have been in the flow It was a little less than 1-2% but no problem children In the next class, we will do it with double energy and I will make sure that the issue related to voice does not come again and again. First of all, tell me who is the author of the portrait of a lady? Do you know why the issue is coming here? I will tell you.

Because here on the screen, something is applied by doing OPS. Then this screen works like a computer. Because the screen is not OPS, the company has not given it, they are saying that we do not have it available.

So because of that, I am having a lot of problems in using the screen. So and on top of that, the issue of the mic, today I am getting to know that when you are telling. So that's why there is a new studio, so there are a lot of issues coming.

First, I will try to sort this issue ASAP. Okay. Yes. Yes, the correct answer is Khushwant Singh. Very good.

Option number B. Next, tell me. Who is the main character of the chapter, The Portrait of a Lady?

Who is the main character here? Mother, sister, grandmother, daughter? Who is our main character?

Tell me quickly. I am telling you again and again. My dear, join Telegram, Instagram.

Because now... I will give you a proper timetable of classes in a few days But until the timetable is not revealed By then you will get all the information in advance on my telegram When is your next class And if you will keep your studies from the beginning If you will keep on understanding your chapters and poems from the beginning Then things will be easy for you too OK? Chalo, toh yaha pe yes, grandmother is the correct answer.

Next pe aajao, how did the grandfather in the portrait hung on the wall look like? Toh yaha pe grandfather ka appearance pucha gaya hai, jase ki maine aapko padhaya tha, ke grandfather kaise dikhte the, ye aapko batana hai bache. Jaldi jaldi batao, and abhi aap pe pressure bhi kam hai, cheezo ka, toh try karna ki aap rozana classes me aap aao, taaki aage jaake future me aapko...

problem na aaye. The bache? Chalo.

Alright. Toh yaha pe likha hai old skinny. Skinny toh handsome nahi the.

Old long white beard, worn big turban. Yes, option number A. Chalo. Next pe aao.

Abhi chota isko bada kar deti hu. How did the grandmother look? How did the grandmother look? How did the grandmother look? Jaldi pitao.

Alright. Old fat long. Long kya hota hai? Long fat slightly bent. Short.

Old short slightly bent. Yes, slightly bent and khali fat. Yes, option number C.

Next, when did the author parents leave him with his grandmother? When did the author parents leave him with his grandmother? When he was a kid, when he was an infant, when he became a teenager, when he failed and became a teenager. What do you think is the correct answer? Okay comments bhi mujhe yaha pe dekhne padh rahe hain.

Okay very nice. Thik hai. Bohat badhia. Option number A, bachche bol rahe hain, when he was a kid.

Yes, option number A. Next pe aajaw, which animal did grandmother used to feed in the village? Kaunse janvar ko grandmother gaon me feed kiya karti thi?

Yeh bachche aapko batana hai. Dogs, cows, sparrows ya cats. Beta, gaon me kis ko feed kiya karti thi?

Yeh batana hai. So, dogs were in the village, right? Option number 1. The kids who are saying C, Sparrows, they used to feed them in the city.

Okay, son? Come on, let's move on to the next. Now, next is, what did the author eat for breakfast? What did the author eat for breakfast? In breakfast, our author used to eat, what did he eat?

You have to tell this, kids. Tell me quickly, my dear. Very good.

Yes. The answer is option number 8, thick and stale chapatis with a little butter and sugar spread on it. Very good.

Next question, come here. It is written here, why would grandmother accompany the author to his school? Cut my nose. Okay. Yes, why would grandmother accompany the author to his school?

Kids, it is raining here. It is raining here. It is very heavy.

Very pretty Ma'Am Yes What's the matter? What's the matter? Deepak Rathi You are giving the right answer Yes Deepak must be happy If you see random name Then take it Yes Yes So here because of the Attached to school Children are saying One is to keep an eye on him To wait for him To take him Back to home because of the temple or she wanted to meet villagers. Option number C.

Next. Where were the parents of the author? Where were the parents of the author?

Abroad city, other village or other state. Abroad means going to a foreign country. Okay.

Yes. What will be the correct answer here? Option number B.

She chale gayi thi usko chhod ke Next pe aajao Likha hua hai What would the grandmother do on a daily basis? Last question for today What would the grandmother do in the temple on a daily basis? Kya karti thi bachchu grandma? Meditation karti thi Scriptures Religious book Religious prayers Kya karti thi Or used to make other kids lose religious prayers? Yes, the correct answer is read scriptures, option number B All the kids out of 10, tell me your score in the comment section How much is your score out of 10 MCQs?

Tell me all the kids quickly Then we will end our today's class here I promised to leave it before 1 hour, I am ending your class before 1 hour Okay? So in today's class again we have done explanation line by line Apart from that we have discussed MCQ I am telling you the PDF of question answers that you will get on my telegram channel All the question answers whether it is your MCRT or your important question answers Which are asked repeatedly in your senior's schools whether it is question and answer or from the chapter you don't have to do anything else your seniors also did nothing else if you want then come to the 12th class and ask your seniors who have read 11th from me so please join telegram for that you can see telegram and instagram there is a link in the description you have scored very well So how was the first class? Do tell me in the comments Because your feedback is very important for me to proceed I will keep the next class very soon I will inform you on telegram And you will get a proper timetable from me In the upcoming week of classes Okay, stay tuned on the channel Stay updated on telegram I will give you a proper timetable The session has started So I am thinking about things But yes You will get the timetable and you will get the update on telegram one day before.

Now tell me, is the voice more cut in the whole class? Why am I asking this for class 12th? Because class 12th is at 8 o'clock, if it is more cut then I will not take their class today, I will take it tomorrow, today I will sort the issue.

Now tell me how many issues did you see in the voice of the whole class? Otherwise I will have to watch the whole class sitting for 50 minutes How much voice was cutting? Was it cutting more or less?

Was it too much in between or was it one or two times in between? Tell me a little specifically then come to us, cut the moch, we will meet in the next class And please suggest your juniors channel And suggest your classmates too. Would be of great help to me. Okay.

Not much. Okay. Comment too. Sometimes it happens. Okay.

I will tell them again to sort. Alright. Alright.

Okay. Thank you so much. Lovely lovely children. I love you all. Thank you so much for attending the class.

Please share this class and please leave your feedback 400-450 students are watching me till the end 800 students came Right 850 students were there today So if 450 students are there till the end So if you will comment one by one So 450 comments should be there under the class That how was the class So I will see you guys later Class 11 Bye bye Take care of yourself Love you See you later Thank you