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 REVIEW-SWAMI AND FRIENDS

Swami and friends was first published in the year 1935. The relevant author R.K. Narayanan 's one of the best work is swami and friends which happens at an imaginary village known as Malgudi, Tamil Nadu .The story mainly connects with the life of  swami , a seven or eight year old boy , rajam , swami's friend , Mani ,swami's another friend and other character's like swami's father , his mother ,grandmother and friends like somu , shankar and pea.In the story Mani is a very angry boy with whom swami always travel.The author had made the story more funny with swami's innocent thoughts and made it more curious with Mani's valuable decision.

SUMMARY Swami is an ordinary boy studying in Albert mission school, Malgudi. Swami's best friend is mani who is very mischievous boy. Swami and mani met a new student named Rajam whose father is the new superintendent of police. Mani and Swami was always jealous of mani's fame in studies rather than sankar who is always the first in studies. One day Mani challenged Rajam for a fight to find out who is the most strongest and the competition was held at the bank of sarayu river. Mani was all ready for the fight but unfortunately, in the turn of events Rajam came to the match in his kaki look with his father's gun in one hand. At the moment Rajam appeared in mani's eyes he accepted his defeat and asked Rajam to become a friend. From that onwards Rajam ,Swami and Mani became friends. Later that day, Rajam tried to make Mani , Swami , Pea , Sankar and Somu who were enemies before .He invited everyone to his house and offered certain gifts to them if they said" they were enemies no more . They were friends now but among Mani and Swami there were two kinds of friendship . Mani , Swami and Rajam are BFF 'S for always , but Somu , Pea , and Sankar were secondary friends . In a strike holiday , Swami and some other teenagers made some violence . The headmaster noticed Swami making problems with the school props.He suddenly gave Swami TC from the school . Swami was then sent to a very strict school at malgudi . He missed his old friends very much. He has evening classes too which made him more worse . At the time of his evening freedom , Rajam suggests to make a cricket team with more good players . They got everything included bats, balls,players . At the first batting Swami was considered as a good player but Swami was not able to reach the ground before 5:30 because of his evening classes. He even told lies to his coaching sir that he is having insane.The principal caught him and started scolding him. Swami become crazy at the moment and gave a sharp bite to the teacher and ran away from the school.he then went to the railway station to caught a train as he thought that it is vulgar to stay at home again after making this much problems. And inside the train he met the TTR who found that Swami is not having a ticket and he took Swami out from the train at next station which was near a forest. Swami went inside the forest and he walked to reach his home because he wished to see his father, mother, grandmother , his four month old baby brother , friends and upcoming cricket match. he thought that he was at a familiar place. But he lost his way and went deep inside the forest and was harmed by some nocturnal animals .He was then treated by a doctor and reached home safely. Swami and friends played the match and won the game.