Kabuila Wala

1. What crime is the Kabuliwala charged with? How is he punished for the wrong done?
2. What time of year is it? Describe the weather?
3. There was a lot of hubbub in the house since visitors……. stood before me with a
salaam.” Whose house is being referred to here? What is the reason for the noise and
bustle pervading it?
4. Describe briefly the scene at the house.
5. Describe Rahamat’s physical features at this point of time.
6. Why couldn’t the narrator recognise him first? How did he recognise him a little later?
7. Where has Rahamat come from? How did the narrator treat him? State why the narrator
does not like his visit to the house.
8. What was Rahamat’s reaction to the treatment given to him in the narrator’s house?
9. “Every year Rahamat came to peddle merchandise on the streets of ……..he was a
father and so was I.” what is referred to as the’ memorabilia of his daughter’ ? Why does
the Kabuliwala carry it with himself?
10. What are some of the ‘merchandise’ that the Kabuliwala sells in the streets of Calcutta?
11.  What has the Kabuliwala requested of the speaker? Does the speaker accept his
request/Give a reason for your opinion.
12.  Why is the Kabuliwala shocked when MIni finally appears before him?
13. What realisation dawns upon the Kabuliwala when he sees Mini?
14. Explain how the narrator helps the Kabuliwala.
15. What was common to the Kabuliwala and the narrator?