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బారిష్టర్ పార్వతీశం [Barrister Parvateesam]
First novel Describes the naive Parvateesam running away from home in Mogaliturru, a small town that he calls a "famous historical city" in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, in order to become a barrister. The novel depicts troubles he faced in dealing with other languages, the naive way he behaves with people from the outside world. It ends with his reaching shores of England. First part is set within the years 1850 to 1900, while India was still under British rule. Struggle for independence barely beginning in south India. Parvateesam decides to leave for England because of the way he is taunted by his teacher and friends, thinking becoming barrister is the only solution to redeem him self.. He runs away from home with what little money he had. He knows no other language other than Telugu (spoken in Andhra Pradesh), believing that once he reaches Madras (Chennai : capital city of Tamil Nadu) he can take a ship to England. He knows nothing of the hard ships of this journey.
544 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1924
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February 14, 2022
I read this book for the first time in 10th grade and absolutely loved it. Later I re-read it again and loved it even more. I have been searching for a english version of this book and hope to find it one fine day. This is an amazing piece of literature and one of the funniest novels I have ever read.
April 9, 2014
బహుశా తెలుగులో "కన్యాశుల్కం" తరువాత నాకు నచ్చిన పుస్తకం "బారిష్టర్ పార్వతీశం". మూడు భాగాలను ఒకే పుస్తకంలో (రంగుల చిత్రాలతో)2011 లో ప్రచురించటం జరిగింది. మొదటి భాగంలో పార్వతీశం గురించి అతను ఇంగ్లాండ్ కు ప్రయాణానికి సిద్ధ మవటం వరకు రాయటం జరిగింది. రెండవ భాగంలో ఇంగ్లాడ్ విషయాలు అక్కడి చదువు గురించి, యుద్ధ వాతావరణం పార్వతీశం తిరిగి స్వదేశానికి ప్రయాణం కావడం గురించి ప్రస్తావిస్తుంది. మూడవ భాగం అతని సొంత వూరిలో అతనికి లభించే ప్రధాన్యత అతని వివాహం మరియు వకాల్తా, కోర్టు వ్యవహారాలు మరియు స్వతంత్ర ఉద్యమంలో పాల్గోవటం గురించి ఉంది. మూడు భాగాలలో మొదటి రెండూ సరదాగా చమక్కులతో సాగుతుంది. మూడో భాగంలో పరిణితి చెందిన ప్రకాశం కనిపిస్తాడు. ఈ పుస్తకంలో ప్రతి భాగానికి వివరణ కూడ జతకూర్చడం జరిగింది. చదివి చదువరలుకు సూచించతగ్గ పుస్తకం.
May 20, 2013
God Bless the teachers on AP Board who decided to include this book in the syllabus. An awesome book and you just cannot stop laughing reading the journey of this Barrister!
April 2, 2018
Great humor, an engaging read
August 22, 2011
A very gr8 comedy book
January 8, 2019
Thanking the person who included this in our academic (AP board).
A book having all kind of genres means it has comedy , love , history , relations, values, cultures differences, travelling etc.
Missed this master piece till now. But I read it . Thanks to Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry.
A book having all kind of genres means it has comedy , love , history , relations, values, cultures differences, travelling etc.
Missed this master piece till now. But I read it . Thanks to Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry.
January 7, 2013
Best! Best! Best!
April 26, 2020
The author is so full of humour, he makes you laugh at the silliest of things. The protagonist is an innocent and sometimes almost stupid teen who sets out to London from a small village in India to pursue law as his career. It portrays, also, snapshots of social and cultural aspects and taboos in India before independence. If you can read Telugu then start immediately and appreciate the rib tickling sarcasm. Hats off to the author!
February 22, 2012
Amazing read.. The best of telugu novels out there, 10 pages a day brings out the mirth in you! :)
June 22, 2013
awesome book for ever and ever........ :)
read more than 100 times.
i started reading this book from my 9th standard.. within 1 day...
what a novel wow.
thank you narasimhasasthri garu thank you.
read more than 100 times.
i started reading this book from my 9th standard.. within 1 day...
what a novel wow.
thank you narasimhasasthri garu thank you.
August 6, 2021
బారిస్టర్ పార్వతీశం తెలుగు సాహిత్యానికి కాలాతీతమైన రత్నం మరియు ఇది నా మొట్టమొదటి తెలుగు నవల పిక్ అప్, ఈ నవల దాదాపు 100 సంవత్సరాల క్రితం ప్రచురించబడినప్పటికీ, రచయిత మొక్కపాటి నరసింహ శాస్త్రి యొక్క శుద్ధీకరణ రచనా నైపుణ్యాలు పుస్తకం అంతటా పరకాశిస్తుంది, ఈ నవల గురించి చెప్పడం ఎక్కడ మొదలుపెట్టాలో నాకు నిజంగా తెలియదు. ఎక్కువగా కథనం హాస్యరచనలో ఉన్న, విభిన్న కథనాలు మర్రియు సందర్భాలు మీపై ప్రభావం చూపుతాయి, ప్రత్యేకించి స్వాతంత్య్ర పోరాట కాలం నాపై గొప్ప ప్రభావం చూపింది, రచయిత మానవ సంబంధాలన్నింటిలోని సారాన్ని అద్భుతంగా సంగ్రహించారు మరియు ఒక వ్యక్తిపై ఆ వివిధ బంధాల ప్రభావాలకు సంబంధించిన విషయాలు విశేషాల గురించి అద్భుతంగా రాశారు , నా జీవితంలో నేను చదివిన ఉత్తమ పుస్తకాల్లో ఇది ఒకటి.
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Barrister parvateesam A timeless gem of Telugu literature and My first-ever Telugu novel pick up,
I really don't know where to start to express my thoughts about this novel even though it has been published nearly 100 years ago the refinement writing skills of author Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry shines throughout the book. Even though most of the narration majorly written in humours way the different scenarios and predicaments will leave their impact on you, especially the period of independence fight had a great impact on me while reading, author has captured excellently the essence of all the human relations and the effects of those bonds on an individual. One of the best books I have ever read in my life.
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Barrister parvateesam A timeless gem of Telugu literature and My first-ever Telugu novel pick up,
I really don't know where to start to express my thoughts about this novel even though it has been published nearly 100 years ago the refinement writing skills of author Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry shines throughout the book. Even though most of the narration majorly written in humours way the different scenarios and predicaments will leave their impact on you, especially the period of independence fight had a great impact on me while reading, author has captured excellently the essence of all the human relations and the effects of those bonds on an individual. One of the best books I have ever read in my life.
August 5, 2024
Prose in Telugu will remain unmatched. The words flow to develop vivid images in your brain.
The combination of real life incidents / people, exaggerated from the narrator while he probably hides some feelings while openly accepting others.
Reading this book for a 2nd time as I find myself in vaguely similar circumstances... A naive guy from rural India goes to a country not often visited....
It's incredibly funny and with time shows a mirror to ideas that have changed (for both good and bad) and others that have dug down deeper...
I suspect this is not the last time I will read it... Given I know characters from the book IRL and have grown up around the culture.
The combination of real life incidents / people, exaggerated from the narrator while he probably hides some feelings while openly accepting others.
Reading this book for a 2nd time as I find myself in vaguely similar circumstances... A naive guy from rural India goes to a country not often visited....
It's incredibly funny and with time shows a mirror to ideas that have changed (for both good and bad) and others that have dug down deeper...
I suspect this is not the last time I will read it... Given I know characters from the book IRL and have grown up around the culture.
September 29, 2022
I listened to this excellent audiobook version.
February 12, 2013
As many others mentioned, I read this book first when I was in my 10th standard in school. That was an awesome experience then. later I bought this book recently again and read it. This time all the three parts were included in this new printed version. I felt mesmerized reading this book all over again after 11 years.
One may get bored in the later parts, but this is the best for the times this book is printed and for the following it has acquired through Radio and Weeklies. The pace of the book might be slow or the descriptions about the people are very different because those days people don't have these many shades as they have today. Then people are ether good or bad, where as now we cannot decide whether one is good or bad. That is why the book has a lot of optimism all over it.
I loved reading it. But do not expect the dumbness of protagonist to continue from part 1 to other two parts. He is well matured and developed and will win your hearts.
One may get bored in the later parts, but this is the best for the times this book is printed and for the following it has acquired through Radio and Weeklies. The pace of the book might be slow or the descriptions about the people are very different because those days people don't have these many shades as they have today. Then people are ether good or bad, where as now we cannot decide whether one is good or bad. That is why the book has a lot of optimism all over it.
I loved reading it. But do not expect the dumbness of protagonist to continue from part 1 to other two parts. He is well matured and developed and will win your hearts.
May 1, 2015
Really this book is amazing.I have read this book of 1st part in my tenth standard and recently I had read other 2 parts. The 1st part was humorous and 2nd and 3rd were not that much humorous but not boring and we can read once. The second and third parts contains about his studies in ENGLAND and his practice as a lawyer and freedom movement in our country.
January 23, 2015
There are a lot situations the lead character encounters new people,places and their customs. These situations will makes you smile.
We get to know the culture of Andhra people in the early half of 20th century.
We get to know the culture of Andhra people in the early half of 20th century.
December 15, 2021
Funny !! Depicts quite realistic point of view of the period in context in a humour associated way.
August 11, 2013
A book that will beat all your limits of laughter. Thanks for my board for including it in my syllabus without which I would have never read it.
March 18, 2014
I want to read it now in telugu
June 12, 2014
One of the best, funniest novel. A childhood memory to cherish forever!
October 3, 2016
Read it because , its a nondetail telugu text book for 10th class. But funny and humourous
December 7, 2022
I have read the 1st part of this book in my 10th grade. All I remember about this book was how funny it was.
Now, after reading the 2nd and 3rd parts too, this book is more than a humorous book. I like the transition of naive, young Parveetheesham in to an adult who has to deal with the internal struggle of western ideas he came across in England and the Indian ideology during independence.
Though the characters and day to day life is described in great detail, one thing this book is definitely not is boring. There wasn't a continuous span of 5 minutes where I wasn't laughing while reading this book. Part 3 is less humorous than the first 2 parts, but it also shows how Parveetheesham evolved with age.
Giving it 4 stars as I see how colorism, casteism and class system was so imbibed in Indian culture during the 1920s while reading this. Even though it's probably a true depiction of affairs at that point of time, it still left me with a bad taste to see such discrimination.
Now, after reading the 2nd and 3rd parts too, this book is more than a humorous book. I like the transition of naive, young Parveetheesham in to an adult who has to deal with the internal struggle of western ideas he came across in England and the Indian ideology during independence.
Though the characters and day to day life is described in great detail, one thing this book is definitely not is boring. There wasn't a continuous span of 5 minutes where I wasn't laughing while reading this book. Part 3 is less humorous than the first 2 parts, but it also shows how Parveetheesham evolved with age.
Giving it 4 stars as I see how colorism, casteism and class system was so imbibed in Indian culture during the 1920s while reading this. Even though it's probably a true depiction of affairs at that point of time, it still left me with a bad taste to see such discrimination.
August 23, 2020
Lot more than a funny book!
Reminiscing the fun in studying the abridged version in high school, I picked this book up expecting a humorous narration of Pravateesam's experiences. But it is so much more! Loved the contextual portrayal of social and historic issues: living through World War2, India's independence movement, colorism, child marriage, and caste-based classism.
Parvateesam is a naive, energetic, and obedient young man. His coming of age story is written in a way that makes you deeply care for him. The transition between the parts is smooth and it is endearing to see Parvateesam trying hard to balance between internalising modern ideas and respecting traditions.
The book gets less humorous but remains interesting until the end. I highly recommend reading it.
Reminiscing the fun in studying the abridged version in high school, I picked this book up expecting a humorous narration of Pravateesam's experiences. But it is so much more! Loved the contextual portrayal of social and historic issues: living through World War2, India's independence movement, colorism, child marriage, and caste-based classism.
Parvateesam is a naive, energetic, and obedient young man. His coming of age story is written in a way that makes you deeply care for him. The transition between the parts is smooth and it is endearing to see Parvateesam trying hard to balance between internalising modern ideas and respecting traditions.
The book gets less humorous but remains interesting until the end. I highly recommend reading it.
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September 4, 2018Heard a lot about this book and it was also a part of the curriculum for the students of higher secondary school. The book enjoys a reputation of being one of the standard book for humor in telugu literature. The book is divided into three parts and the first part and the first half of the second part stands perfect to its reputation. However the third division drags the pace and slowly the story drifts towards the independence movement though contemporary to the time the book was authored.
Even if one shelves the book without reading the third part one can be excused but the first and second part of the book is a real laughing delight.
Even if one shelves the book without reading the third part one can be excused but the first and second part of the book is a real laughing delight.
May 28, 2022
4.5/5
It wasn't hilarious for me, but I thoroughly enjoyed every part of Parvateesam's beautiful journey. My favorite are definitely the first 2 parts of him traveling to Europe and his experience in the foreign. If it were an English book, it would have got made into a feature film atleast 3-4 times by now. I just recently discovered that the late early 90s or late 80s students had this book as 'Upavaachakam' or 'Non-Detailed'.
Would recommend every telugu guy and everyone who can read telugu properly to read it.
It wasn't hilarious for me, but I thoroughly enjoyed every part of Parvateesam's beautiful journey. My favorite are definitely the first 2 parts of him traveling to Europe and his experience in the foreign. If it were an English book, it would have got made into a feature film atleast 3-4 times by now. I just recently discovered that the late early 90s or late 80s students had this book as 'Upavaachakam' or 'Non-Detailed'.
Would recommend every telugu guy and everyone who can read telugu properly to read it.
July 3, 2018
That feel of nostalgia! :) This is hands down one of the best telugu books I happen to read! A pure bliss! I read this so many years back in my 10th grade, but still I remember the impact it had! Time to revisit again I guess and it did bring a smile when I accidentally saw it here and couldn't hold myself rating it 5 stars!
January 5, 2019
We had this a my 10th class non detailed. But I bought this again and totally dipped into nostalgic feelings.
Hahaha... This made me strong person. Below two points we should learn from this book.
1. Don't afraid to take big steps in life, you will find a way somehow.
2. If you don't know something ask others rather than act like diligent intelligent.
Hahaha... This made me strong person. Below two points we should learn from this book.
1. Don't afraid to take big steps in life, you will find a way somehow.
2. If you don't know something ask others rather than act like diligent intelligent.
September 6, 2017
Book gives insights of our culture, different people, practices which we had earlier, some of the stories are good to hear those are real contemporary. Nicely written, given vivid pictures about Fabian society.
October 24, 2017
This is an autobiography of imaginary person named Mr . Barrister parvateesam . First part is all about his train journey from village to England . It is full of fun ,makes you laugh of his innocence & naive attitude.Telugu readers really enjoys reading this book.
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