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- Title: Waiting For Mahatma
- Author : R. K. Narayan
- Release Date : January 27, 2016
- Genre: Asia,Books,History,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,Religion & Spirituality,Hinduism,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1790 KB
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Set against the backdrop of the Indian Freedom Movement, this fiction novel from award-winning Indian writer R. K. Narayan traces the adventures of a young man, Sriram, who is suddenly removed from a quiet, apathetic existence and, owing to his involvement in the campaign of Mahatma Gandhi against British rule in India, thrust into a life as adventurously varied as that of any picaresque hero.
âThere are writersâTolstoy and Henry James to name twoâwhom we hold in awe, writersâTurgenev and Chekhovâfor whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respectâConrad, for exampleâbut who hold us at a long armâs length with their âcourtly foreign grace.â Narayan (whom I donât hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian.ââGraham Greene
âR. K. Narayan...has been compared to Gogol in England, where he has acquired a well-deserved reputation. The comparison is apt, for Narayan, an Indian, is a writer of Gogolâs stature, with the same gift for creating a provincial atmosphere in a time of change....One is convincingly involved in this alien world without ever being aware of the technical devices Narayan so brilliantly employs.ââAnthony West, The New Yorker