kallu story

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Ismat Chughtai led an uncon2entional life,

went in for higher education, took up a 3ob,li2ed alone, married a man of her choice andwas cremated, as she had desired, instead ofbeing buried4

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$fter "asheed 5ahan, she was the rst %uslimwoman to write no2els and short stories inUrdu4

Chughtai wrote many stories before she wasactually published in 67874 9ith a keen eyeand an incisi2e intelligence she looked into

the li2es of a whole range of %uslim women,from the middle class in the suburban townsof Uttar +radesh4 !er stories were oftencontro2ersial4


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&he also wrote for lms, se2eral of her storiesha2e been made into lms4 (f these, aram!awa :67;8< won a great deal of acclaim4

In 67;=, she recei2ed the +adma &hri for hercontribution to Urdu .iterature4


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&U%%$"* he story re2ol2es around the life of

Kalimuddin aka Kallu4 !e is not e2en se2enbut still he does work more than a BA year

old man4 &tarting his day with boiling water for the

morning tea and making innumerable trips tokitchen and dinning table gi2ing the cook all

the ingredients for the breakfast4!is ne?t task in2ol2ed taking care of small

errands of the house from washing )anhi’s

diaper till fetching $bu’s cigarette4


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%umani thrashed Kallu and his nosestarted bleeding4 Kallu’s mother saw thisand took him away4

$fter many years, a particular %r4 in

comes to the city as eputy Collector andthis person was none other than Kalluhimself4

!e asks for &alima bi’s hand in marriage4%umani refuses to let &alima marry himdespite Chacha 3an’s repeated reDuests4


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Characteristics of Kallu

Kallu was a nice boy4 !e was Duiet, obedientand a faithful labour to %umani aunty4

!e did all household chores and he workedso hard that he didn’t ha2e time to e2en play4

!is mother 2isited him and e2en she put himto work4

!e had feelings for salima bi4 9hen he 2isited their family as a deputy

collector he was 2ery kind and he completelyforgot what had happened in the past4


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%umani bi was not interested to talk withkallu when he came all of a sudden to meet

their family4 1ut he was so gentle and hestarted talking to mumani bi in such a waythat as time passed she became ne and

e2erything was normal4&o bottom line is that kallu knew how to be

a gentle person and he respected his eldersand he ne2er forgot who he was4


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Character sketch of %umani 5an%umani 5an’s character shows 2ariation

throughout the story4 $t times she is imposing, attimes she is generous4 &o one can conclude that

she has a confusing +ersonality4$s a child Kallu was beaten 2ery badly by %umani 5an 3ust for asking &alima’s hand in marriage4

his shows the imposing side of her4


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Character sketch of Kallu’s ammaKallu’s amma was e?Duisite and elegant 3ust like

e2ery amma in the world4 &he has 2ery strongcharacter4 &he worked immensely hard in order to

raise Kallu4

9hen Kallu was small she sent him to %amuni 5anin order for his betterment, as she understood

with such a small income she would be unableraise her child well4 his shows her understandingand sacricing nature4


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&he 2isited Kallu e2ery week to see him4 his shows she was a lo2ing and caringmother4

$fter Kallu was sent o by %umani 5anfrom her home she worked 2ery hard,sewed clothes washed dishes of people so

as to raise Kallu to heights4 his shows herdetermined nature which nally bore fruitswhen Kallu became he eputy Collector4


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.o2e- he rst and the most important thing thatthe story tells us about is lo2e4 .o2e which amma

had for Kallu4 .o2e, which dri2es her through any

sort of hardship for her child4 &he sewed clothes,washed utensils in order to raise Kallu to properheights in life4 .o2e, which Kallu had for &alima bi4

It enabled him to be attached with the family inwhich he was deeply insulted4 $fter becoming the

eputy Collector also he married the girl he hadchoosed as a child4

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!ard work- his story also symboliHesthe hard word done both by Kallu and

his mother to achie2e things whichwere beyond e?pected from theminitially4 @rom working in a house as aser2ant to becoming a eputycollector Kallu showed a lot ofdedication and hard work in theprocess4

&acrice- he story also tells us aboutthe sacrices made by Kallu’s mother4@irst, she left her in %amuni 5an’splace for the betterment of Kallu4 $nd

when Kallu was sent o by %amuni 5an

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