What kind of society was Santosh Yadav born in? How was her grandmother different from others?
Santosh Yadav was born in a society where the birth of a son was regarded as a blessing and a daughter was generally not welcomed. Her grandmother wanted a girl instead of a boy.
(i) What does it mean to be ‘on top of the world’?
(ii) What did Santosh do when she was on the top of the world?
(iii) Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following words:
(a) actually, (b) greatness.
Describe Santosh’s fight against the system?
What is the secret of Santosh’s success?
What made Santosh scale Mt. Everest the second time? How was it important?
