Indian Summer

By: Will Randall

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Paperback | 9 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Will Randall thought teaching in an inner-London comprehensive was a tough job. But that was nothing compared to the next assignment: saving a slum school in the Indian city of Poona. Learning as much as he is teaching, Will finds his life transformed by his remarkable class of orphans: Dulabesh, the head-standing joker who lost his parents on a crowded railway platform; Prakash, who learned self-sufficiency by scavenging in dumpsters; the charmingly madcap Tanushri, fan of the singer "Maradona." When the slumlords threaten to level the school, Will hits upon the idea of a fund-raiser to save it: a stage production of the 24,000-verse Indian epic, "The Ramayana," ever so slightly condensed...By turns funny and poignant, this is a gloriously life-affirming account of the India tourists never see.

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A refreshing read from a travel writer who hates travelling for its own sake. - INDEPENDENT

Randall kaleidoscopically evokes his changing perceptions of the country's extraordinary perceptions of the country's extraordinary diversity in a travelogue full of sensuous detail, humour and poignancy. - OBSERVER

A delightful book in the spirit of HINDOO HOLIDAY. - CONDE NAST TRAVELLER

He does not skimp on the dark, sad nature of survival and how its dividend is brutality- despite which his version of India aspires to be elegaic as well as chaotic. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

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