CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

BHOLI

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is the author of the lesson ‘Bholi?
A
Sinclair Lewis
B
K.A. Abbas
C
W.B. Yeats
D
Nelson Mandela
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Answer : Bholi is a story written by K.A. Abbas. The story revolves around a girl who due to accidental fall and disease in her childhood faces the problem of being dull and ugly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summary of Bholi Bholi is a work by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (K.A. Abbas). He was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist and journalist.

Detailed explanation-3: -Barrister-at-law: A play about the early life of Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi, Orient Paperbacks, 1977. Men and women: Specially selected long and short stories, 1977. Mad, mad, mad world of Indian films, 1977. I Am not an Island: An Experiment in Autobiography, New Delhi, 1977.

Detailed explanation-4: -Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (June 7, 1914 – June 1, 1987) was an Indian film director and producer, novelist, screenwriter, journalist, short story writer and playwright. In a career spanning over half a century, Abbas emerged on the Indian and global scene as a communicator of great repute.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bholi is the story of a village girl who was discriminated as she had pock-marks on her face, stammered and was considered to be a simpleton. Bholi suffered an attack of smallpox when she was just two years old. She damaged a part of her brain when she fell off from the cot.

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