She retained her world title in 2006 in New Delhi. This she considered her greatest achievement because she did it in India, in front of her own people.

She found it difficult to use the chopsticks to eat Chinese food.

The Indian team was the last to arrive in Pennsylvania. They had to go straight to the sporting arena. She found that she did not have any match on that day. So she was lucky to take some rest.

America was pleasing to her eye and the people were enormously nice to her.

The anglers and poets fill their mind with more glorious matters than the ordinary things. Such absentmindedness is considered a virtue. They often make the best of their life so they do not remember the ordinary things.

Our memories are filled with the names of actors, actresses, cricketers, football players and murderers. Moreover we remember the name of the hotel where we had an unpleasant meal and all the items of our dress. Normally we do not forget to shut the door when we leave the house.

A list of articles lost by railway travellers was published. When people read the list they wondered about the absentmindedness of their fellow beings.

When the grandmother realised that her end had come, she stopped her prayer. She gathered some women. She got an old drum and sang the home-coming of warriors. The next morning she was taken ill. The doctor said that it was not serious. But she said that her end was near. She stopped talking to her people. She lay peacefully in bed praying and saying her beads. In a short time she died.

When the author decided to go abroad for further studies, he thought that the grandmother would be upset. But she was not sentimental. When she went to the railway station with the author, she did not show any emotion. She only prayed for the author.

The author’s grandmother was an old woman with wrinkled skin. She had been like that for twenty years. Once she had been young and pretty.