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World of swami
May 26, 2003 07:08 PM 38191 Views
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One of the greatest and the most celebrated books of all the times Here comes ''swami and friends''The book brings child hood memoirs and the past in a very Unique manner ........


On my fifth birthday my father had given me a book,named swami and friends and I was very much interested in the other stuff that had mattered to me at that time....on one day in my teens I heared from my friend that swami and friends was a coolest book on earth..I ran to the house


I was delighted to discover Swami and Friends back then,


Swami clicked magnificently in that sense. While my father was pleased that I liked to read. This book take u into the fabolous world of childhood the known facets of life and the happiness in a childs world all tempt u to be an child again ..the fun the thrills,the amazing world..all clubbed together gives you swami...every person can fit into the mould of swami..wheter he is a teenager or a 60 old year..all like to be child..


This is R.K. Narayan’s classic chronicle of the adventures of a boy named Swami, and his friends Rajam and Mani, in a sleepy and picturesque South Indian town called Malgudi. Swami’s days are full of action—when he is not creating a ruckus in the classroom or preparing in his inimitable way for exams, he’s trying to acquire a hoop from the coachman’s son to run down the Malgudi streets, playing tricks on his grandmother, or stoning the school windows, inspired by a swadeshi demonstration. But the greatest feat of Swami and his friends lies in putting together a cricket team for the ‘MCC’ (the Malgudi Cricket Club) and challenging the neighbouring Young Men’s Union to a match. Just before the match, however, things go horribly, horribly wrong, and Swami has no option but to run away from home, wanting never to return to Malgudi again . .


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Swami feels oppressed by authority —the severe Christians at school, his admonitory father—but he is also attracted by its promise of stability and identity, and his great infatuation is with Rajam, the police officer's son, with his bungalow and toy rail engine: the symbols of the world of colonial progress and modernity that Swami, too, is being asked to enter. That exalted world, once the exclusive preserve of Brahmins, is changing fast: it is no accident that Swami's greatest source of fear in Malgudi is the low-caste, slum-dwelling ball boy at his father's tennis club.


The game of cricket, with its simultaneously rule-bound , offers Swami, as it does millions of Indians, emotional release from the strains and pressures of adjusting to his ever-altering circumstances. But the captain of the cricket team is Rajam himself, before whom Swami tries hard to pose as a modern rational adult, an act in which even his old affectionate grandmother becomes a shameful embarrassment—someone to hide from when Rajam visits his house.


When Swami, giving in to his natural rebelliousness, runs away from home just before an important cricket match, he knows not only fear and uncertainty but also guilt. His feeling that he has been irresponsible and cowardly, that he has failed to act like a man, colors the heartbreaking last two pages where Narayan's swift clear prose— so naturally a part of his alertness to physical and emotional actuality, the randomness of events and emotions— describes Rajam's departure for the bigger world outside Malgudi.


A nervous Swami has gone to the railway station with another grown-up friend, Mani, to see Rajam off. He has a present—Andersen's Fairy Tales—for Rajam. But Rajam, whose own attitude toward Swami has alternated between harsh indifference and brisk curiosity, is already remote. The train starts to move; Rajam takes the book but says nothing: childhood has ended for him and he won't prolong it any further for Swami:


The last paragraph where swami had to part away with rajam is the most celebrated departures of all the times..in one the pars when swami hands over to him the book that he had got from his house to mani and asks it to give it to rajam and the rajam train leaves


''Does he ever think of me now?'' Swaminathan asked hysterically.


''Oh, yes,'' said Mani. He paused and added: ''Don't worry. If he has not talked to you, he will write to you.''


but swami was in dilemma that rajam didnt knew his address but mani tells for his satisfaction that he had given it to rajam...on been interrogated that what was his address mani says


''''It is—it is—never mind what ...I have given it to Rajam.''


Swaminathan looked up and gazed on Mani's face to find out whether Mani was joking or was in earnest. But for once Mani's face had become inscrutable.


and on more para I remeber is when swamis father is taking lessons on mathematics and swami is in a ouzzle and the scene described by narayanan is exceptionally brlliant...


I reccommend this book is a must read!!!!!!!!


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