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The painter of signs

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Ahmad Kamil

Raman is a sign painter who lives with his traditional aunt. He takes pride in his work. Raman meets Daisy, a young liberal woman devoted to family planning and women's issues. She becomes his biggest customer, commissioning signs for family planning clinics. Raman is attracted to Daisy despite differences in their views. He agrees to travel with and help her cause just to be with her. They marry but separate after two days, then go their separate ways.

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-Raman, a college graduate, brings a sense of professionalism to his sign-painting, taking pride in his calligraphy and trying to create exactly the right sign, artistically, for each client. -He live with his aged aunt, a devout, traditional woman whose days are spent running the house and tending to her nephew’s needs and whose evenings are spent at the temple listening to the old stories and praying
ï‚ž Then Raman meets Daisy, a young liberal woman ï‚ž Daisy is devoted to improving the lives of women and the standard of living of the country ( India ) through strict family planning
ï‚ž Daisy becomes his biggest customer, commissioning signs for all the family planning clinics and she helps establish the idea of the family planning clinic through the city and outlying rural areas ï‚ž Raman expressed his feelings to Daisy
( what happened after the marriage ) ï‚ž -
ï‚ž Unsurprisingly, his attraction to Daisy proves more powerful than his desire to avoid the entanglements of marriage. ï‚ž Raman agrees to travel with Daisy around the neighbouring villages, painting signs to advocate birth control, not because he is converted to the cause, but because he finds her irresistible.
ï‚ž They got married but broke up after two days of marriage. ï‚ž Then after the broke up, they both went separate ways

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The painter of signs

  • 2. -Raman, a college graduate, brings a sense of professionalism to his sign-painting, taking pride in his calligraphy and trying to create exactly the right sign, artistically, for each client. -He live with his aged aunt, a devout, traditional woman whose days are spent running the house and tending to her nephew’s needs and whose evenings are spent at the temple listening to the old stories and praying
  • 3. ï‚ž Then Raman meets Daisy, a young liberal woman ï‚ž Daisy is devoted to improving the lives of women and the standard of living of the country ( India ) through strict family planning
  • 4. ï‚ž Daisy becomes his biggest customer, commissioning signs for all the family planning clinics and she helps establish the idea of the family planning clinic through the city and outlying rural areas ï‚ž Raman expressed his feelings to Daisy
  • 5. ( what happened after the marriage ) ï‚ž -
  • 6. ï‚ž Unsurprisingly, his attraction to Daisy proves more powerful than his desire to avoid the entanglements of marriage. ï‚ž Raman agrees to travel with Daisy around the neighbouring villages, painting signs to advocate birth control, not because he is converted to the cause, but because he finds her irresistible.
  • 7. ï‚ž They got married but broke up after two days of marriage. ï‚ž Then after the broke up, they both went separate ways