The Portrait of a Lady Khushwant Singh ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND FIRST FIVE PARAGRAPHS WITH WORD MEANINGS About the author Khushwant Sing is one of the greatest writers of modern India. He was born on 2 nd February 1915 in Hadali,Pnnjab in Pakistan. He was a prolific writer and a versatile genius. He was a novelist, journalist, lawyer and a politician. He was brought up in Delhi. He went to St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and King’s College, London. He was known for his trenchant views on secularism. He is appreciated for his sense of humour and sarcasm. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. This great Indian author died on 20 th March, 2014 in Delhi PART ONE PARAGRAPH 1 MY grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s po...
