Does she find her teacher different from the people at home?
When she could not speak her own name then other girls started laughing at her and she felt really embarrassed. She was treated the same way at her own home. But she found her teacher was different from the people at her home as the teacher was polite and this touched her heart.
Bholi’s story must have moved you. Do you think girl children are not treated at par with boys? You are aware that the government has introduced a scheme to save the girl child as the sex ratio is declining. The scheme is called Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Save the Girl Child. Read about the scheme and design a poster in groups of four and display on the school notice board.
Bholi had many apprehensions about going to school. What made her feel that she was going to a better place than her home?
Why does the marriage not take place?
How did Bholi’s teacher play an important role in changing the course of her life?
For what unusual reasons is Bholi sent to school?
Why do Bholi’s parents accept Bishamber’s marriage proposal?
Why did Bholi at first agree to an unequal match? Why did she later reject the marriage? What does this tell us about her?
Does Bholi enjoy her first day at school?
Bholi’s real name is Sulekha. We are told this right at the beginning. But only in the last but one paragraph of the story is Bholi called Sulekha again. Why do you think she is called Sulekha at that point in the story?
Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?
Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
How did the invisible man first become visible?
How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?
What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?
Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?
Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?
What experiments and projects does he then undertake?
Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?
What kind of a person is her husband?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
If you were caught in a situation like this, how would you have dealt with it?
Noodle avoids offending Think-Tank but at the same time he corrects his mistakes. How does he manage to do that?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: Compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: “Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?
How is the problem solved?