India is newly independent, but you wouldn't know it from Krsna's boarding school. There, surrounded by sadistic prefects and English housemasters, life goes on as it did in the days of the British Raj. Schooling is strict and punishments brutal-even if the education Krsna receives is top-notch.
Befriending others in his dorm, including the handsome cricketer Koshy, and Blackie, a French-speaking peasant boy from Pondicherry, Krsna adapts to school life. He comes to idolize Ralph Forster, an Anglo-Indian housemaster who considers himself of pure English stock. To Krsna and Blackie,...
India is newly independent, but you wouldn't know it from Krsna's boarding school. There, surrounded by sadistic prefects and English housemasters,...
