![]() Soon after, Ramani and the widow get married. From then on the narrator takes less interest in Ramani’s affairs, as he thinks that there is nothing more he can do. The narrator uses his social status for the purpose but in vain. ![]() The narrator decides to take Ramani away from the widow for the sake of Ramani’s dead parents. The widow only makes the situation worse by reinforcing Ramani’s dreams about becoming a film star. This flattery is designed to con Ramani out of free drinks and money at cards. The armband youths always say that Ramani is handsome and should be a film star. Ramani has no armband but his new acquaintances exert a strong influence on him. The narrator disapproves of them and hints at beatings-up which they might be involved. Ramani’s friends wear the armbands of the new youth movement. The narrator tries to persuade Ramani to stay away from his new friends but in vain. He starts drinking illegal liquor in the back of the Irani’s canteen. The narrator thinks that the widow decides to seduce Ramani as they were seen everywhere in public. He has a vested interest in snatching Ramani out of the widow’s clutches because he used to know Ramani’s parents. The narrator disapproves of this relationship. Ramani is a naïve rickshaw puller, young, good-looking who inherits his profession from his father. He watches from a distance the intimate relationship developing between Ramani, the main protagonist of the story and a poor thief’s widow, who is attractive, vicious and ten years older than him and also has five children from her previous marriage. ![]() Here the narrator is a retired school teacher who enjoys a high social status. The title of the story highlights to an incentive, the gift of a transistor-radio the health department gave to those undergoing the sterilization surgery or vasectomy. Salman Rushdie’s short story The Free Radio is about the sterilization campaign launched by India’s ruling regime during the Emergency period (1975-1977) when President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, upon advice by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution of India, effectively bestowing on her the power to rule by decree, suspending elections and civil liberties. Justify the Title of the Story The Free Radio ![]()
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