Malgudi days is the collection of short story by RK Narayan published in 1943 by Indian thought publication.
The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi.
In 1986, a few of the stories in the book were included in the Malgudi Days television series and directed by actor and director, Shankar Nag.
Some best story like "An Astrologers day" in which he discribes short story about an astrologer who knows nothing about stars or astrology. He never wanted to be an astrologer but his poverty made him so.With more of matter of study, practise and shrewd guesswork he retorted such verdicts that it astonished and pleased people . One day he meets his rival whom he thought that he had killed long ago. With the help of his disguise of an astrologer he fooled his rival and has a hair-breath escape.
And an another one story is very best story named as "The Doctor's word" in which he tells a story about Dr Raman, a doctor who believes good words can't save lives . He is very staunch about that. Suddenly his best friend falls terribly ill and the situation goes out of his hand . Now he is betwixt very badly.He finally tells good word's to save his friend's life even though he knew there was no ray of hope for his survival and at the end doctor's friend survives miraculously that still remains a great mystery even for the doctor himself.
I think everyone must read this book by the legend of the story world RK Narayan.