CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -She wished to climb mountains when she used to watch the villagers going up the hill and suddenly vanishing after a while. One day, she decided to check it out herself. She found nobody except a few mountaineers. Later she saved money and enrolled in a course at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.

Detailed explanation-2: -From her room in Kasturba Hostel Santosh used to watch villagers going up the hill and suddenly vanish after a while. 2. When she finished college Santosh had to write a letter of apology to her father because she had got herself enrolled at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering without his permission. 3.

Detailed explanation-3: -Santosh remembers, “Kasturba Hostel faced the Aravalli Hills. I used to watch villagers from my room, going up the hill and suddenly vanishing after a while.

Detailed explanation-4: -The speaker saw people going up the hill from her room in Kasturba Hostel, Jaipur. (b) Where did she see the villagers going? Answer: She saw the villagers going up the hill.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: 1. The ‘holy man’ had assumed that Santosh’s mother wanted a son as the part of the society she belonged to regarded birth of a son as a blessing. However, he was surprised when the unborn child’s grandmother told him that they did not want a son.