The title is suitable and appropriate as 'landscape' is suggestive of European art like landscape has necessary components I.e mountains and water, in the same way European art is , u need to have a specific view point ,but on the contrary the word 'soul' in the title represents chinese art , because soul symbolizes spirituality and also it tells thateveryone has a different perspective in the same way chinese painters want u to look in ur own way and enter into the world of painting from wherever u wish and understand it at ur own level

In the story the " The portrait of a Lady " by khushwant Singh. The grandmother was not pretty but had a divine beauty. She dressed in spotless white, Her silver locks were scattered untidely over her pale, puckered face , and her lips constantly moved in an inaudible prayer. The author describes her " like the winter landscape in the Mountains " - A personification of “ serenity, breathing peace and contentment ”.

Carter wanted to loosen the hardened resins. He put the body in the blazing sunshine. But it didn’t work. There was only one alternative. The resins had to be chiselled away before raising the king’s remains. Carter’s men removed the mummy’s head and severed nearly every major joint.

Quinten  once sneaked into his beloved father's studio and painted a fly on his latest panel. It looked so much real that the painter tried to swat it away before realising that it was actually a painting. In this way, Quinten impressed his beloved's father, i.e., through his realistic painting. 

Middle void is the third element where there is the interaction between Yang and Yin.

The painter does not draw the eye of a dragon because he thought that they would fly away from the wall.

Sung-Yow was a Chinese painter and he had a great ability to make his painting alive only after finishing his work.  He loved to paint a dragon but he never painted their eyes because he didn’t want them to come alive so that he could keep his secret.

One day a king invited to make four dragons painting on his wall. He made the panting but left their eyes.

He was a famous Chinese painter, who lived in the eighth century. He was a master painter and had been commissioned by the Tang Emperor Xuanzong, to decorate a palace wall. He made a wonderful painting on the palace wall. When the painting had been completed, he called the emperor its exquisite beauty. The emperor was stunned with his creation. When the emperor was admiring the painting, the master painter clapped his hands; a door of the cave in the painting opened; Wu Daozi entered the door and the door closed. And the painting disappeared. Wu Daozi was never seen again.

Wu daozi was a painter who painted a scenery and according to him their was a soul in the feets of the cave and when he told abt that painting to his emperor .they decided to go inside the painting but wu daozi go first and get invisible even their were not a single of his paint brush and he was never seen after that incidence.

The unique traits of garoghlanian family was, from eleventh centuries they were famous just because of their honesty. Once they were one of the wealthiest family. Then also they were very honest in nature. Honesty was in their blood.

They consider proud first and honesty second as nature. They also believed to do the right thing. None of them of the family there was nobody to take advantage from anyone of the world even if they are alone in somewhere.  

Aram found it hard to believe because the tribe that both Aram and Mourad belonged to was known for their honesty. No member of their tribe could think of taking undue advantage of anyone; stealing was considered despicable among them. For this reason, Aram could not believe Mourad could have stolen the horse. 

The narrator's grandmother was a very religious lady. She used to hobble around the house telling the beads of her rosary. Even as she bathed him, she would recite her morning prayers and hope that he would learn it too. While the narrator was at school, she would sit in the temple and recite scriptures. Even after the narrator went to the University, she would sit by her spinning wheel and recite prayers. Even at the time of her death, she did not waste her time talking to her family, but went on saying her prayers.

Court councilor Kondrashkin is the other important character in the story after Pyotr Petrovich Milkia.

The story does not tell us about the personal appearance. He is the father of seven daughters. He wants to settle them in marriage. That is why he has encouraged the visits of young men like Milkin. Even Milkin's friend says that if he marries Nastya, it will be good for Kondrashkin. That poor man has burden of seven daughters.

He is the father in a great hurry. He does not mind handing over his daughter to an irresponsible, immature, and cowardly man. We get the impression that he wants to get rid of his daughters. He does not mind giving his daughter to the devil himself.

This proves that he was not a father in real sense.

Ranga was the son of the village accountant who sent him to Bangalore for studies. After six months he returned back. All villagers rushed to see any possible changes in his physique or manners. The author also went to see him. Ranga did a proper namaskar to him and the author was very much impressed with him. Ranga had his own peculiar views about marriage. He did not want to rush into it. He wanted to marry a mature girl. However, there is an irony about his views. In spite of having such clear and well defined views of marriage, he fell prey to immediate marriage, and that too with an eleven year old girl, Ratana! 

The camera had captured all three girls alive in it.
It has captured the pretty face of the poet's mother who as a girl of twelve years are the time.
It has also captured the smiling face of the two cousins Betty and dolly. They are holding the hands of the poet's mother.

VASANTHA SURYA

The story 'A gift of chappals' explores many themes: kindness to animals is one of them. the children rescue and feed a stary cat. Also, they show compassion towards a beggar and hand over their uncle's chappals to him. At the same time, there is a sarcastic comment on the practice of beggary in India: how beggars play on people's emotions to take advantage.