A GIRL AND A RIVER
It is the 1930s and the fire of the freedom movement from distant Bengal and Delhi is warming the languid bones of the small town in Mysore, where Kaveri and Setu grow up. Theirs is a liberal, prosperous household and the family takes its privileges for granted. Mylaraiah, their father, believes that they are twice protected from such delusions as Swaraj?once by the British and then by the Maharaja. While Setu absorbs their father?s unquestioning veneration of the British, Kaveri, profoundly affected by Mahatma Gandhi?s visit to their town, comes to recognize their attempts to be ?more English than the English? as rather shameful..