LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:8 August 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Teacher-Student Relationship Depicted in Sudha Murty’s
How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories

E. Dhivya, Ph.D. Scholar


Abstract

This article focuses on the teacher-student relationship depicted in Sudha Murty’s How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories. The book presents interesting episodes of how even the ordinary events and the simple teaching-learning we receive in our life may be very significant for our future life. Each story is a slice from the author’s life. But Sudha Murty presents these in a manner the readers are able to see how they fit in the pictures she draws. The discussion in the paper focuses on family and non-family relationships, respect and honor to the teachers and our elders, who are endowed with wisdom and on what children and others could do to improve our lives. Several stories or narratives presented in the book are discussed and the ideal behind the stories are explained.

Keywords: Sudha Murty, teaching and learning, elders, students and experience and wisdom.

How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories

How I taught my grandmother to read and other stories is an interesting collection of short stories. Each story is a slice from the author’s life. It is specially written for children and has very important and thought provoking statement lines like “do we tell our children about the sacrifices of the 1857 war of independence” (58). Generous grandmother, religious grandfather, a dutiful daughter, responsible son, successful husband, wise mother, comic cousin, ungrateful classmate and her own good self are highlighted in the story. The influence of some of the characters Sudha Murty met in her real life and the impact of her grandparents and her friends, colleagues are acknowledged in these stories. One of the stories, the red rice granary, is a good story which focuses on how people are let down by the rich, today. It also broadcasts about the achievements of the Infosys foundation and the writer’s life of integrity. She writes also about the lack of essential subtlety in the characters that children would want to identify themselves with.

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E. Dhivya, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women
Coimbatore 641004
Tamilnadu
India
dhivi.1777@gmail.com.

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