2. Follow the clues in these slides
to find out the person described.
3. There is a mistake in each clue.
If you find out the mistakes, you can
easily find the person;
If you find out the person, you can
easily find out the mistakes!
5. When she was young, she was so
shy that she would run home from
school because she could not bear
to talk to anybody.
6. She spoke English with an Irish
accent, thanks to an Irish man who
taught her.
7. She worked as an editor, in two
different countries, for newspapers
in three different languages.
She loved her mother tongue and
her longest work is in that language.
8. The first postage stamp with her
picture was printed in Switzerland
for another country.
13. She refused to celebrate the first
Day of Independence of her own
country.
14. In 1931 from London, she addressed
the people of US over the radio. The
first words they heard were “Do I
have to speak through this thing?”
15. She was sent from one foreign
country to another to collect some
huge debts.
She was a success there and, in the
1920s, her yearly income was
15,000 dollars which is still a dream
for many Indians who live now in
that particular country.
17. The same gun carriage which was
used to carry her dead body to the
funeral place was used again in 1997
for another funeral.
18. In 1999, HarperCollins publishers
declared this work as one of the
'100 Most Important Spiritual Books
of the 20th Century'.
This is the last clue and it doesn’t
have a mistake in it.