Karma Summary WB Board Class 11 English
Karma
Khuswant Singh
Author name – | Khuswant Singh |
Born – | 1915 |
Death – | 2014 |
About author:- Khuswant Singh has won fame as a journalist as well as a fiction writer. With Malice towards One and All was a very popular weekly newspaper column panned by him. He was editor to the prominent newsweekly known as The Illustrated Weekly. Kushwant Shing is also well known for his poems and short stories.
Karma is taken from. The Collected short stories of khuswant shing (2005). The story is written with a note irony. The author shoes concern with the issue of cultural Identity.
Summary
The story is about an anglophile named Sir Mohan Lal. An anglophile is a person who is an admire of England and the English people. Mr. Lal yearns to leave his Indian origen behind and imitates the England as closely as possible. The story opens with Mr. and Mrs. Lal waiting for a train. Mr. Lal travels first class since he considers himself one of England gentry who rides first class. Mrs. Lal is unlike her husband in taste and disposition, she is a traditional Indian women. She travels in inter-class women’s component. Mr. and Mrs. Lal share a strained relationship. When the train arrives MR. and Mrs. board their respective compartments. Two drunken English soldiers get into the compartment with Sir Lal. Sir Lal is ready to treat them with a spirit of camaraderie. But the two soldiers refuce to overlook his Indian origin and treat him in the same way as they would treat a native. Sir Lal pleads his affinity with the English, but the soldiers refuse to recognise him as one of their own countrymen. They throw him out of the train. The story concludes with Mrs. Lal spitting out from there compartment the red juice from the betel leaf she was chewing.