Malgudi
Schooldays
R.K.Narayanan
Introduction by Shashi Deshpande
This book is about the
adventures of a boy named Swaminathan and his friends like Rajam and Mani in an
imaginery South Indian town called ‘Malgudi’. This book is a slightly abridged
version of ‘Swami and Friends’ , it includes two stories featuring Swami from
‘Malgudi days’ and ‘Under The Banyan Tree’. It is written by R.K.Narayan and
illustrated by his brother R.K.Laxman. it is published in Puffin by Penguin
books India. It has got 240 pages and in each page we can find humour and
adventure.
Swami is a harum-scarum boy
and his adventures are really funny. He is like most of us because he also
don’t like Mondays, he has problems with his studies . In school he has
friends, best friends, and even enemies like his teachers and headmaster. His
father is stern but his mother and grandmother always supports him. At that
time British were ruling India and so the Swadeshi movement is mentioned in
this book. Swami burns his cap thinking it was foreign but actually it was a
khaddar cap. He breaks the windows and was dismissed from his first school.
Then he goes to another school, called Board High School. They form ‘Malgudi Cricket Club’ or the MCC.
Swami was called ‘Tate’ because he was a good bowler.This boy is also
mischievous . He creates problem in the other school also and was scared and
ran away from home. Finally after a lot of searching he was found. This parents
were thankful to the District Forest officer, Mr. Nair. He had lost his way and
had reached the Mempi forest and had luckily escaped from wild animals. This
novel ends with the leaving of Rajam to Trichinopoly, because his father, the
superintendent of Police,had got transferred.
I loved reading this book. In
my opinion everyone should read this book and enjoy.
-
T.Anagha Sivadas
IX C
S4399
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