Malguri Days
" I have named this volume " Malgudi Days in order to give it a plausibly geographical status. I am often asked " Where is Malgudi?
All I can say that it is imaginary and not to be found on any map. If I explain that Malgudi is a small town in south India. I shall only be expressing a half truth, for the chateristics of Malgudi seen to me universal"
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" Malgudi Days " is among Narayan's collection of short stories. The stories written with Narayan's simple style and characteristic gentle irony portary, the variety and color of India.
The stories which share the lives of everyone from entrepreneurs to beggars, which takes place in and near this Indian village. Thus the heart and the soul of that village is on display and we find it is a place where most people are haunted by illiteracy and unemployment. Yet despite the ubiquity of the poor many of the stories come across with humorous good natural episodes of their lives. Among the stories the reader meets an astrologer, a gatekeeper and a young man yearning to pass the examinations. There are also animals including a forlorn dog who befriends a blind man and a ferocious tiger. Above all there is a pervasive irony that more often a character's dreams or expectation do not lead to the results he desires. This keeps the reader guessing as to what the next story will show in the lives of people who become endlessly fascinating, if only for the reason that you have met them before in your own town......
