The Lost Spring by Annes Jung - 4

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1. How does Savita's hands work?
2. What do the bangles symbolise  in the Hindu traditions?
3. How is a girl decorated for her marriage?
4. What is ironic about Savita's life?
5. What do we learn about the life of a bangle seller from the narrator's conversation with Mukesh's family?
6. What is the achievement of Mukesh's father? How is it an achievement?
7. What is the big problem that generations of bangle making families have been facing?
8. How has hard toil affect the bangle sellers?
9. How does a cooperative help them?
10. Why have the bangle sellers failed to organise into a cooperative?
11. What is the baggage that a boy from the bangle making family cannot put down?
12. What is the thing about Mukesh that cheers the writer?
13. What embarrasses Mukesh? What is he content with?


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