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Bosom Friend by Hira Bansode
Bosom Friend by Hira Bansode
Bosom Friend
By Hira Bansode
With a smirk you said Oh My – Do you serve chutny koshambir this way?
You still don’t know how to serve food
Truly you folk will never improve.
You know in my childhood we didn’t even have milk for tea much less yoghurt or buttermilk
My mother cooked on sawdust she brought from the lumberyard wiping away the smoke
from her eyes
1. Comment on the irony (“a situation in which something which was intended to have
a particular result has the opposite or a very different result”) in the title of the poem.
Is the poet’s friend truly a “bosom friend”? 5
4. What is the poet’s tone in the last two lines of the poem? 2
5. How are the words “sky” and “star” used to describe both the poet’s happiness and
her sorrow? 2
7. Comment in the change of the poem’s mood during the course of the poem. 5
10. Write a persuasive letter to the poet’s friend, explaining to her the problems in her
casteist point of view. 10