Waiting for Mahatma (edit title)

chandrakant k edited the quotations of Waiting for Mahatma Friday, November 6 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Even a number would be better than a name ,if a name meant branding a man as of his religion or that.”Mahatama

chandrakant k edited the quotations of Waiting for Mahatma Friday, November 6 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Feeling a beautiful hour or a beautiful scene or a beautiful object is itself a form of prayer.”Mahatma Gandhi

chandrakant k edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Waiting for Mahatma Friday, November 6 2009.

• Added: Story of a boy 's love for a girl which takes him into the midst of freedom struggle and its greatest hero Mahatma.

Shelfari edited the description of Waiting for Mahatma Sunday, August 2 2009.

• "R.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 Gogol's 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."—Anthony West, The New Yorker "The experience of reading one of his novels is . . . comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples, underlain by a simultaneous sense of strangeness—like one's own reflection seen in a green twilight."—Margaret Parton, New Herald Tribune Book Review "The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extraordinary ordinariness of most human happiness. . . . Jane Austen, Soseki, Chekhov: a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them."—Francis King, Spectator "The novels of R.K. Narayan are the best I have read in any language for a long time."—Amit Roy, Daily Telegraph

Shelfari edited the contributors of Waiting for Mahatma Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: R. K. Narayan: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Waiting for Mahatma Thursday, July 16 2009.

• HIS mother, who died delivering him, and his father, who was killed in Mesopotamia, might have been figures in a legend as far as Sriram was concerned.