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प्रश्न
Why didn’t the grandmother feel sentimental when the author went abroad for higher education?
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उत्तर
Grandmother got alienated from her grandson the time he went to the English medium school in the city. The reduction of focus in spiritual education and value education and increase in the importance of science perturbed grandma a great deal. She knew that she can’t help the changes. So, she did not show any sentimentality when the grandson went abroad.
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