Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Passage - An ideal student


Translate the following passage in hindi language.
An ideal student
My grand mother Krishtakka, never went to school, so she could not read. Once she said to me “I have decided to learn the Kannada alphabet from today right now. I will work very hard. I saw the determination on her face. Yet I laughed at her. “Avva at this age of sixty-two you want to learn the Kannada alphabet? All your hair is grey, your hands are wrinkled, you wear spectacles and you work so much in the kitchen........”
    For a good cause if you are determined, you can overcome any obstacle. I will work harder than anybody but I will do it. For learning there is no age bar.”
    I started my coaching. Avva was a wonderful student. The amount of  homework and classwork  she did was amazing. She would read, write and recite. I was her first Teacher and She was my first Student.
    Once in a function my grandmother called me and made me to sit on the chair. She presented me a gift. Then she did something unusual. She bent down and touched my feet. I was surprised and taken aback. Elders never touch the feet of youngers.
    She replied, “I am touching the feet of a Teacher not my grand daughter, a Teacher who taught me so well. With so much affection that I can read any novel confidently in such short period of four months. It is not written in our scripture that a teacher should be respected, irrespective of the gender and age.” I knew that my student had come off  with flying colours.

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