SWAMI AND THE FRIENDS

                         It was Monday Morning Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes.    He was very lazy to awake because in Saturday and Sunday holidays he slept for many more time, so that holidays lazy are disturbing on Monday.

                       

                          He has only 2 hours to do all his homework because he didn’t do his homework. So he awake very fast and do all his homework and went to school. His class teacher name was 

Mr. Vedanayanagam.

                        

                          English the first period passed off quietly. Second they had arithmetic period and returned in role of an arithmetic teacher. The teacher’s voice was beginning to get on his nerves. He felt sleepy.                                                               

                          The teacher called for home work corrections. Swaminathan left his place and placed his notebook on the table. While the teacher was scrutinizing the sums, Swaminathan was gazing on his face.                                                                    

                         

                           Which seems so tame at close quarters .The teachers criticism of Swaminathan was that his eyes were too near each other, that there was more hair on his chin than one saw from the bench and that he was very bad looking .                               

                            He felt a terrible pain in the soft flesh above his left elbow his teacher was pinching him in one hand. The teacher was crossing all the sums .He wrote very poor at the bottom of the page and flung the notebook on  Swaminathan‘s face.                                                                                            

                            He gone back to his seat. The next period was history.  He looked and listened eagerly. That period was taken by D. Pillai who had earned a name in his school for kindness and good humour.                                                                           

                            The scripture period was the last period in the morning. This period was taken by Mr. Ebenezer. He was a Christian. He taught about Jesus. He told Jesus was the very good God.                                                                                       

                            He told Jesus will help all persons. Jesus was not like Lord Krishna. Krishna stole butter from neighbor’s house but Jesus was not. Jesus not danced with girls like Krishna. Jesus is the real God.                                              

                            Swaminathan got angry because he was a Hindu. He like Lord Krishna only. So Swaminathan asked a question that Jesus was the real God means why he was crucified? Mr. Ebenezer told that his stage came to an end. So he was crucified. Swaminathan asked another question. The question was, why Jesus ate flesh like meat, fish etc…The teacher beat swaminathan and said don’t ask like these questions.

    

AUTHOR: R.K.NARAYAN

 R.L.SRIHARI