Available Answers

1. 1.

   Why has the author held back every time he had a chance of going away?

2. 2.

   His friends think he is ‘crazy’. Why?

3. 3.

   What experience made him paranoid about going away?

4. 4.

   According to the author, what is it that holds him to India?

5. 5.

   How does he see India and describe it?

6. 6.

   Use the following phrases in sentences of your own to the bring out their meaning clearly.

   1. given the opportunity
   2. worried myself to distraction
   3. son of the soil