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Waiting for the Mahatma by R.K. Narayan

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While reading this I've been thinking quite a bit about Sriram, the protagonist, who picks up a few key words and throws them around without really understanding them. Reading this now, in a time when India seems to be going through formative events again and being faced with someone like Sriram is an eerie coincidence to say the least. Other than that, there is quite a bit to unpack in the novel: the figure of Gandhi, his relationship with the women and the idea of nationhood, large idealistic concepts and their connection to people-or well the eternal debate surrounding theory and practice.