Summarise the prose A Pinch of Snuff.
Ans.The given short story A Pinch of Snuff' is taken from 'Contemporary
Indian short stories in English'. This story is a comical adventurous story which
ties up reader's excitement until the end.
Initially, the narrator's mother announces the arrival of Nanukaka, her
brother who has to stay there for 2-3 days. The narrator asks his mother to give
some wrong plees to avoid Nanukaka but she retorts that he must have started his
travel. On asking the purpose of his arrival; he was equainted that it was to meet
some minister. The narrator perceives that Nanukaka would stay here for months
because ministers do not see people for months but his mother assured him that
Nanukaka would manage everything. The narrator is under secretary on probation
and has been taught to regard ministers higher than god.
Undesiringly, narrator goes to station and he sees Nanukaka who has an
impressive personality with white hairs and moustache. He wears red silk turban
and a long black coat with a white anghocha over his shoulder like a deccani
brahmin. He hands a basket to narrator to wait outside. He hears the noise of a kitten, from the basket, who was perturbed by the collision, narrator has just
sicredits long time before Nakakaappears with a ticket checker and explains
kaka asked him the
matter of travelling with a third class ticket in second class carriage Vhen
ortor explains that he is
on of range of his meeting with ministe
undersecretary hati da
ghts, except for he clock is geregistrating pity
their interview. Nakakatakes a pinch of soft and seems to be lost in
Mother was very excited when Nandhomhult
Block, he had to give up his bedroom to Na Nance to
to north block to see the welfare minister battery two hour
a returned from the office mbling expletives in his
because he could not meet the minister but only could
minister three days later. When they were driving hack to hom How
passed shead of them and somehody waved to the
ned about it and was told that he was Rstiram, the son of Sohantal
e party hass in Delhi Nakaka was taken by surprise. After staying for
Intime at the narrator, he asked to that he had any close collar Jodhpur
conda turan. As soon as they arrived home, he asked narrator to change to
Tus cost and turban and said that they would go to see Sohanlal. A fer changing
clothes, they went to Sohanlal's office. Nunukaka bragged about his VIP S
and contact to big politicians to impress the secretary who immediately went to
islom minister about it Nanukaka now spoke in very loud voice about a
Barkat Ali, the ambassador in such a tone that the ambassador was his best friend
and he also spoke many things regarding his business, connection to minister
and foreign tours. Just as he mentioned about Hana Barkat Ali, the grugling
sound of hookah stopped and soon after Schapbalsiepped into the scene with
secretary as his heels. Nanukaka was welcomed wamily Sahanlal and he dropped
into conversation ahotan indars, votes etc Sonetimes Guter, Sohanlalaito
Nunukaka that his son ambalance rainury be due to some Season some
body had poisoned combassadors mind againsthesson Nanukaka announced
that he will manage the problem
Nanu caka theropened tissnuffbox and had a pinch of it and started to talk
hot welfare minister By the reaction of Sohanlal he came to know that the
minister and he were now at daggers drawn because the minister has refused the
proposal of her marriage with his son and instead had decided to marry her to the
prince of Nimtare. When they came back to home, (the narrator and Nanukaka
Nunukaka was strangely silent but the next moming he was back to usual. This
ay he decided to pay a visit to minister's house. By using brains, Nanukala
ped to get an enormous, princely and outlandish car and the narrator was
det driver. Nanukaka dressed himself and looked every inch like a pandit
from princely state. When the minister's secretary asked his purpose of coming
the place he said that he had no wish to disturb the minister. He asked for
to book and wrote his name as hereditary astrologer to Maharajao Nice
and gave our address and delay, he ordered me to get to Sutapalace
ich he really did not mean, it was to show off We drove quickly to home. We
had tea when a car with white triangle stopped in front of our house and the welfare minister stepped out. Nanukaka received him respectedly. After the
meeting with minister, Nanukaka left next day.
The narrator thinks that if minister comes to know about the reality of
Nanukaka what will happen and he also hopes that in situation like this Nanukaka
will not let his head down but he wants to be far away from the place when this
thing happens.
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