Publisher's Synopsis
"Randall evokes his changing perceptions of the country's extraordinary diversity in a travelogue full of sensuous detail, humour and poignancy." OBSERVER "A fine and moving book." DAILY MAIL Will Randall thought teaching in an inner London comprehensive was a difficult enough job. But that was nothing compared to his next assignment: saving a slum school in the Indian city of Poona. 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 had scavenged in skips; the nutty yet charming Tanushri, fan of the singer 'Maradona'. When the slum barons threaten to level the school, Will hits upon the idea of a fund-raising play to save it: the twenty-four-thousand-verse Indian epic the RAMAYANA, ever so slightly condensed...
