Title: Swami and friends Author: R.K Narayan Genre: Fiction Publisher: Hamish Hamilton,1953 DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL 1.SWAMI Swami is the ten-year-old protagonist of the novel. Swami is a schoolboy living in 1930, in the fictional town of Malgudi in the South of India under British colonial rule. At the start of the novel, Swami …