Waiting for the Mahatma

Description: Waiting for the Mahatma Very Good - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Ready to Ship By -- R.K. Narayan Published by -- Indian Thought Publications, 1989, Mysore India, 173 Pages, Trade Paperback, 6.8" X 4.8" X .3", 4 oz. [BACK COVER]Sriram is twenty. As a mark of his coming of age his grandmother allows him the pass-book to his savings in the local bank, but Sriram is growing up in other ways, too, and an enchanting and unpredictable girl leads him into the entourage of Mahatma Gandhi. These are the opening events in R.K. Narayan's novel. It is the finest thing he has yet achieved, and his story of the triumphs and tragedies of a raw young zealot in the service of Gandhi is distinguished for its warmth, its humour, its lack of sentimentality and the stamp of absolute truth. Sriram's evolution into manhood is, for him, a strange and bewildering process. Bharati, the girl he worships, is witty, infuriating, capable and, wonder of wonders, condescending to the moonstruck Sriram. Her first loyalty, though, is to the Mahatma, a saint blessed with disconcerting common sense, a man whose tragedy is that he is so much greater than his followers. Most of them accept his ideas enthusiastically, and without realizing it, pervert them to suit their own coarser personalities. Sriram is inspired by Gandhi, but he is too easily influenced by glamorous patriots of the type of Jagadish, a terrorist." #Antiquarian #WorldLiterature #MahatmaGandhi #Novel #BooksBooksBooks #instaread #MohandasGandhi #bibliophile #booksforsale #Books #bookcollecting #Fiction #Bookstagram #CuttleboneBooks #IndianLiterature #collectiblebooks #booksale #RKNarayan #readersofinstagram #India #Vintage #bookcollecting #Bookstagram #Narayan #instabooks #Gandhi #IndianThoughtPublications #Bookworm #Literature #Jagadish

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