Today I would like to discuss one of the novels we‘ve just finished reading with the students from year 10 and year 11 attending Babar Bilingual School: “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard”, the dazzling critically acclaimed fiction written by Kiran Desai who tells us a poignant story about an Indian family, in an ingenious wryly hilarious way. In “Hullabaloo” the author creates characters that reflect freshness and tenderness; characters who show attitudes towards life that even when being incredibly absurd, and hyperbolic, make the reader adore the hilarious situations in which they are displayed. . I’m referring to simple but delicious characters, constantly striving for escaping the mundane; their monotonous and dreadful lives. Sampath, the protagonist represents the spirit of the Indian people in a constant search for the natural and spiritual world.
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard delights the reader for its fresh wittiness, its incomparable inventiveness and imaginative, amusing outcomes. Enjoy the short video essay below!