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  Indian Summer (Paperback) By (author) Will Randall

  

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  Short Description for Indian SummerWill Randall tells how he took up an invitation from an elderly German woman to accompany her on a trip to India and how this led to him working in a slum school three hours from Bombay. With the school threatened by slum barons, Randall organizes a fund-raising performance of "The Ramayana".
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  • Publisher: Abacus
  • Published: 09 February 2004
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780349116785 ISBN 10: 0349116784
  • Sales rank: 167,352

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Full description for Indian Summer

• While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. Nothing ventured, he agrees and so begins a wonderful life-changing adventure. Set down in Puna (3 hours from Bombay) he begins work teaching English at a slum school. Most of the children are orphans or parentless (one lost his parents four years previously when his mother had let go of his hand at a railway station and he 'd boarded the wrong train ). When zamidars -slum barons - arrive and threaten to pull down the school Randall has to put on a fund-raising performance of the Indian epic The Ramayana in order to help the slum dwellers buy their own land. Meanwhile he's also been spotted by a Bollywood Director who persuades him to take the role of leading man in his new film. Will Randall is 'the teacher who travels' and, as in SOLOMON TIME, this is a funny and heart-warming account of how one man's enthusiasm and old-fashioned desire to do good have helped to preserve a community.