Grandmother’s Memories
My grandmother’s only picture from before her marriage is a studio portrait in sepia which offers little information of the time. In fact, but for the processing, it could have been shot today. She is in a dark sari, sitting, with a serene, expressionless face, looking into the distance…I hear from second-hand sources that the picture was taken just before grandma was leaving for college. At a time when most women in India were unlettered, my grandmother’s father, a barrister, had encouraged her to continue her education, just as he had taught his own wife to read and write.
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