Waiting for the Mahathma by R K Narayan Current affair/History It is the finest thing

It is the finest thing he has yet achieved

Swami Virupaksha

Fleeing from persecution

the end of illusion

playing video games with the curtains closed and the light turned off

Waiting for the Mahathma by R K Narayan Current affair/History It is the finest thingSriram 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 to 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