The author’s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this?
All the time the grandmother used to telling the beads of her rosary and praying. She used to pray in inaudible voice. She used to do her morning prayer in ‘ a monotonous sing-song ’.While the author was studying in school then she used to sit in the temple and read scriptures.When author started studying in the city school she got to know that no spirituals was being taught in his school and western music was being taught in his school so she was unhappy about that. And in the last phase of her life she stopped talking to her family and started praying in inaudible voice and telling the beads.
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