Five years of a crowded glorious life – Describe in brief how Sir Mohan had spent five years in Oxford

Five years of a crowded glorious life – Describe in brief how Sir Mohan had spent five years in Oxford Class 11 | English (Karma) 6 Marks

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Sir Mohan Lal cherished the memory of his five year stay in England. He studied at the Balliol College, Oxford. This stay had not only helped him acquire the manners and attitudes of the elite society but also asserted him to adopt the anglicised way of speaking Hindustani. He could talk on any subject – books, politics and people. He recollected the golden days of Oxford colleges, masters, boat-races, rugger matches etc. He also ruminated about the glorious five years of grey bags and gowns, of sports blazers and mixed doubles, of dinners at the inns of Court and nights at Piccadilly. He considered them as the best years of his life, far more valuable than the forty-five years in India with dirty Indians and his uncultured and unattractive wife.