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    The author's grandmother Krishtakka loved listening to episodes from the Kannada novel Kashi Yatre that the author would read to her. However, Krishtakka was unable to read the stories herself since she never went to school. After attending a wedding, the author returned home to find her grandmother in tears because she could no longer enjoy the latest Karmaveera issues without being able to read. Krishtakka then vowed to learn to read by the next Dussera festival with the help of her granddaughter's tutoring. Through amazing dedication as a student, Krishtakka learned to read, write, and recite the Kannada alphabet. On Dussera, Krishtakka

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    The author's grandmother Krishtakka loved listening to episodes from the Kannada novel Kashi Yatre that the author would read to her. However, Krishtakka was unable to read the stories herself since she never went to school. After attending a wedding, the author returned home to find her grandmother in tears because she could no longer enjoy the latest Karmaveera issues without being able to read. Krishtakka then vowed to learn to read by the next Dussera festival with the help of her granddaughter's tutoring. Through amazing dedication as a student, Krishtakka learned to read, write, and recite the Kannada alphabet. On Dussera, Krishtakka

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    The author's grandmother Krishtakka loved listening to episodes from the Kannada novel Kashi Yatre that the author would read to her. However, Krishtakka was unable to read the stories herself since she never went to school. After attending a wedding, the author returned home to find her grandmother in tears because she could no longer enjoy the latest Karmaveera issues without being able to read. Krishtakka then vowed to learn to read by the next Dussera festival with the help of her granddaughter's tutoring. Through amazing dedication as a student, Krishtakka learned to read, write, and recite the Kannada alphabet. On Dussera, Krishtakka

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    The author's grandmother Krishtakka loved listening to episodes from the Kannada novel Kashi Yatre that the author would read to her. However, Krishtakka was unable to read the stories herself since she never went to school. After attending a wedding, the author returned home to find her grandmother in tears because she could no longer enjoy the latest Karmaveera issues without being able to read. Krishtakka then vowed to learn to read by the next Dussera festival with the help of her granddaughter's tutoring. Through amazing dedication as a student, Krishtakka learned to read, write, and recite the Kannada alphabet. On Dussera, Krishtakka

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    At that time, Triveni was a very popular writer in the Kannada language and
    all the village people would wait eagerly for the weekly
    magazine Karmaveera, where one of her novel Kashi Yatre was appearing
    as a serial. It was the story of an old lady and her strong desire to go to
    Kashi or Varanasi, where she wished to worship Lord Vishweshwara to
    attain the ultimate blessings. But finally, the old lady sacrifices all
    her savings for the marriage of a young, poor girl, who falls in love but there
    was no money for her wedding.

    Impressed by the plot of Kashi Yatre, the author's grandmother Krishtakka


    would listen to the story as her granddaughter (the author) read
    the episodes to her. She was so touched with the story that later, she could
    repeat the entire text by heart. She never went to school and so, she
    couldn't read it by herself. Afterwards, she used to join her friends at
    the temple park and would discuss the latest episodes with them.She could
    relate to the protagonist of the story.

    After enjoying a wedding program for a week with her cousins, when the
    author returned home, she found her grandmother in tears. When the
    author asked her that why she was crying, she narrated her life-story to the
    author and expressed her grief about getting married very early and not
    going to school. She explained that when the author was
    away, Karmaveera came as usual. But she couldn't even read a
    single letter and felt very embarrassed, helpless and dependent. After this,
    she made a firm determination that she would learn to read the
    Kannada alphabet from the next day onwards and keep Saraswati Puja day
    during Dussera as the deadline. That day she should be able to read a
    novel by herself.

    As a result, the next day onwards the author started her tuition and found
    her grandmother to be a very intelligent and hardworking student who did
    amazing amounts of homework and who could read, repeat, write and
    recite.
    When the Dussera festival came as usual, the writer secretly bought Kashi
    Yatre which had been published as a novel by that time. The author got a
    gift of cotton material from her grandmother. Then suddenly her
    grandmother bent down and touched her feet. The author found this as
    extremely bizarre since elders never touch the feet of youngsters and
    thought that her grandmother had broken the rules of the tradition. But in
    response to that, her grandmother replied that she was touching the feet of
    a madam, not her 12-year-old granddaughter and in the customs it was
    clearly stated that a teacher should be respected, irrespective
    of gender and age. She explained that her granddaughter was a very
    caring and loving teacher who taught her so well that she could read any
    novel confidently in a short period of time. Thus, the author helped her
    grandmother to become independent.

    The story ends as the author gave the gift to her grandmother and her
    grandmother was able to read the title Kashi Yatre by Triveni and the
    publisher's name aloud all by herself.

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