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           A PINCH OF SNUFF.          

Key Points:

  • A Pinch of Snuff is a comic story
  • A Pinch of Snuff is written by Manohar Malgaonkar.
  • Manohar Malgoankar was born on 12 July 1913.
  • Manohar Malgaonkar died on 14 June 2010,
  • An Indian author in the English language.
  • Also an army officer, a mine owner and a farmer.
  • Famour woeks: The Men Who Killed Gandhi', 'Spy and Amber', The Devil's Wind', 'Distant Drum', 'The Princes', 'A Bend in The Ganges', 'Bombay Beware'.
  • Manohar Malgaonkar is a well known novelist and short story writer
  • A Pinch of Snuff has been taken from Contemporary Indian Short Stories in English.
  • A Pinch of Snuff is a humorous story.
  • Nanukaka in a linguistic emergency always uses his mother tongue.
  • Nanukaka took out his cheque book and wrote a cheque for a thousand rupees.
  • Nanukaka had tied a huge red turban round his head.
  • Manohar Malgoankar was the Under Secretary on probation.
  • Nanukaka has a huge quality of tilling lies.
  • Nanukaka has to meet a minister in the North Block
  • Nanukaka managed to travel in 2nd class on a ticket of 3d class
  • Nanukaka handed over a cheque of a thousand rupees to a Dhobi.
  • Nanukaka came out of ministers office mumbling colourful Marathi swear words.
  • Nanukaka portrayed himself as the hereditary astrologer of the Maharaja of Ninnore
  • Nanukaka went to the Sikka Auto Dealers
  • Nanukaka gave the Dhobi a two rupees note as a reward.
  • Nanukaka gave the minister the address of the Narrator.
  • Angocha was kept by Nanukaka.
  • The portfolio of the minister is the welfare
  • Nanukaka was to stay for two or three days
  • Nanukaka was a very clever man.
  • It was not very easy for the narrator to get sent on a foreign assignment Mother said, "Nanukaka is coming to see some minister."
  • Nanukaka was coming to visit the narrator's family.
  • Nanukaka was narrator's maternal uncle.
  • Name of the son of Sohanlal Ratiram was Ratiram.
  • Sohanlal Ratiram was the party boss in Delhi
  • Nanukaka's meeting with Sohanlal Ratiram was very successful
  • The second important person Nanukaka had planned to meet was Welfare Minister The new role Nanukaka gave the narrator under secretary, was of Driver.
  • Nanukaka managed to impress the Sikka Auto Dealer by demonstration of wealth.
  • The type of situation in which a person from time to time turns to his mother tongue is called Linguistic Emergency.
  • Nanukaka told, "Take me to the Maharaja Sutakatta's palace to return the horoscopes. Mother informed the under secretary about Nanukaka's visit.

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