CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Sulekha was called Bholi because everyone considered her to be a backward child and a simpleton. The name Bholi thus symbolises her under confidence and ignorance. After mentioning her real name at the beginning of the story, the author mentions it again only in the second-last paragraph.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bholi’s real name is Sulekha. We are told this right at the beginning. But only in the last but one paragraph of the story is Bholi called Sulekha again. Why do you think she is called Sulekha at that point in the story?

Detailed explanation-3: -Solution : Sulekha is called “Bholi. because she is a simpleton due to her suffering from some brain damage after falling off a cot when she was ten months old. As a result, she is not as smart as other children of her age.

Detailed explanation-4: -Her name was Sulekha, but since her childhood, everyone had been calling her Bholi, the simpleton. She was the fourth daughter of Ramlal. When she was ten months old, she had fallen off the cot on her head and perhaps it had damaged some part of her brain.

Detailed explanation-5: -Richa Chadha’s character, Bholi Punjaban, from Fukrey (2013) was inspired by one of Delhi’s biggest sex racketeers, Sonu Punjaban.