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16. As a child she said one day, “Mummy, you never let me have any
fun” complainingly. Mother said : “All right, you want a wedding?
Well, you’ll have one that you can never forget”. On that day,
when she came back from school, the whole house looked like a
marriage hall. Before she could say anything, she was dressed
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like a bride’s ‘mother’. The band arrived, the groom rode on a
real steed! All the children of the locality took part. The ‘bride’
was brought with all religious chantings.
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17. The ‘mother’ that day, so fond of drama, grew up to become one of
India’s leading filmmakers and theatre personalities.

c2 answer the following questions and share your responses with
your partner.

1. How could Sai draw the attention of her playmates while they
made fun of her?

2. What fascinated Sai as a child?
3. Why is the word ‘mother’ given within the inverted commas in
the sixteenth and seventeenth paragraphs?

glossary :

plump : round and fat
fables : short, imaginary tales with usually
animals as characters.

senior wrangler : a person who tops in maths
examination from Cambridge
University.

replete with : full of

mulancha mera : a Marathi phrase meaning “my favourite
child” or “my dream child”.

dragons : crocodile like big animals with wings.
flights of fancy : wings of imagination
revered : respected

froze : [Past tense of ‘freeze’] Cold that turns
water to ice. [Here, got scared]

meekly : mildly

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