What Is The Moral Of The Silencer

The protagonist struggles to be remembered forever in the society, just like a movie star or a cricketer, who live alive ever in today 's modern world. If one pays a close look at the background of Raghu, the protagonist of 'The Silencer ' by G.B.Prabhat, he is a student of sociology. He, the brightest student, favourite of his professor in the college. He has to stay for some period in Kuyili, a remote village near Coimbatore in Tamilnadu, for his dissertation work, to study the various roles the human beings play in their lives to prove the established theories of sociology. Contradictory to it, by the time he finishes off his stay, he could come to know that many problems surround Man today and the rustics don 't find time to play

For decades, they have this water problem, because this village is in higher planes and unable to get water easily. Nallur, the village two miles away from here, will get more water as it is on the way to the river. Yet, they are not willing to divert water to Kuyili with the fear of shortage of water in the future. Hence, the villagers, here, have to satisfy themselves with only two buckets of water per day, per head, for all their households, drawn from the only well available, which is 100 feet down. Surprisingly, they do not have police stations in their village and they themselves guard that well during nights, protecting from water thieves and pronouncing punishments through unanimous decision. Means, water seems more precious than all the other properties there. Hence, he, a specialist in water management system, decides to help the villagers in getting water to their village with his

His photographs commonly appear both in newspapers like, The Hindu, and other magazines. He has become the Modern Social Reformer and adopts 150 villages within 28 years after the initiation of Eeram. He is even invited to address on water management in the United Nations. According to the author, The seeds of his murderous instinct were sown in exceptionally good deeds in a remote village outside Coimbatore, beautifully named Kuyili. (Prabhat, 78) He is even granted five grounds of land, in which he builds a house at the end of a cul-de-sac, isolating from neighbouring houses and near the crashing ocean in Chennai. He remains as an adviser to Eeram even after his retirement at 60, as per the rules of Eeram. After his retirement, Raghu does not make friendship with many, but one , the Colonel, who teaches him how to shoot with his gun, the Silencer. He presents Raghu his favourite Walther PPK pistol, which was used in the World War Two and gifted to him by his European friend, knowing his passion for James Bond. Though Raghu does not find any use of the gun to him, he accepts it as a token of friendship between them and puts it in his suitcase to forget forever,