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प्रश्न
Which language do you think the author and his grandmother used while talking to each other?
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उत्तर
The author and his grandmother might have used their mother-tongue to converse with each other. As the author, Khushwant Singh belongs to Punjab, the language used by them might be Punjabi.
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