Sudhakar Rao spends hours reading under a suragi tree in his fathers home in a small village in Karnataka. As he grows, he moves away from this idyllic setting to the complexities of life in the temple town of Udupi, and then to the whirl of Mumbai. His huge family network strains and breaks, as parents die and friends vanish. Sudhakar Rao becomes a professor of English literature, but memories of his Sanskrit stories and philosophy travel with him even as he travels far from home. His relationships with women, his growing sadness, his dying uncle who had given him so much love, leave him desolate. The Suragi Tree takes the reader through six decades as it traces a path leading from a village in rural Karnataka, through a small town, to the city of what was then Bombay, and then back again to where it all began. About the Author Prabhakar Acharya taught English Literature at the college level in Mumbai before he retired as Head of Department and took to writing the novel that lay coiled in his mind, biding its time. After a long teaching career, he has now returned to Karnataka where he is currently at work on a novel for children, Pappu in Kishkinda. Table of Contents A Knockonthedoor Deivas And Devatas Amma And Mariamma Kalkutika Homecoming Nampalli The Matha The House Of The Mathatelling Stories After The Fever The School At Kone Mangoes And Monkeys The Play Caves And Tigers Habba Shifting Sands A Treeinkan The Shwar Godhooli Memories And Dreams The Suragi Tree Fires And Fire Flies Shame Final Year In School Confrontations The Unhappy Year Back To College Those Two Years To Bombay Bombay The Journey Bombay And Nampalli A Student Of Literaturethe English Lecturerthe Crisis Inthewilderness An Indian Summer From Red Brick To Plate Glasslovea Troubled Relationship Home Again Dakshi And Delhi the Funeralorphaned Drift Letters From Dakshi Rajanna Little Ramu Another Play Trapped Bursts, Blasts And Accidents Bubbu And Urmi Harshad After Thirty-Seven Years Part Vii Yakshi Heat And Fever Stories Lakshmi The Seventh Dayt He Road To Recovery Back To Bombay Resurrection
