By

P.SOMASUNDARI
R.K.NARAYAN
 NAME : Waiting for Mahatma
 WRITTEN BY : R.K.Narayan
 Language : English
 PUBLISHED BY : Michigan State ,University Press
 NUMBER OF PAGES : 241
 EDITION : 1955
Rasipuram Krishnaswami IyerNarayanswamy
Born: 10 th October 1906
Occupation : Writer
Nationality : Indian
Genere : fiction, mythology and non-
fiction
Died : 13 May 2001
Sriram is a high school graduate who lives with his
grand mother in Malgudi, the fctional Southern
Indian town in which much of Narayan’s fiction takes
place. Sriram is attracted to Bharati, a girl of his age
who is active in Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India
movement, and he becomes an activist himself. He
then gets involved with anti- British extremists,
causing much grief o his grandmother. Sriram’s
underground activity takesplace in the countryside ,
an are alien to him, and the misunderstandings with
the locals provide the book’s best comic moments.
After spending some time in jail, sriram is reunited
with Bharathi, and the story ends with their
enagagement amidst the tragedy of India’s partition
in 1947.
A lot of people are waiting for
Martin Luther king or Mahatma
Gandhi to come back, but they are
gone. we are it. It is up to us . It
is up to you…