The Portrait of a Lady’ PART THREE Summary of The Portrait of a Lady ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ is one of the greatest works of Khushwant Singh. The author gives a pen picture of his close and affectionate association with his grandmother. He draws a picture of warm relations with his grandmother from his early childhood right up to his homecoming from abroad. Appearance His grandmother was short and fat and had a slight bent. She had wrinkles on her face. She kept on hobbling about in pure white with one hand resting on her waist and the other hand telling the beads of her rosary. She was pure and pristine like a stretch of a serene winter mountain. Togetherness with grandmother in the village The author’s parents left him and his grandmother back in the village. She used to wake him up early in the morning; said morning prayer; got him ready for school and accompanied him to school. Not only that, she would sit inside and read the scriptures whi...