Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan , Pico Iyer (Introduction)

Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan , Pico Iyer (Introduction)Sriram is twenty. As a mark of his coming of age his grandmother allows his 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

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