Malgudi was an earth-shaking discovery for me, because I had no mind for facts and things like that, which would be necessary in writing about Malgudi or any real place. I first pictured not my town but just the railway station, which was a small platform with a banyan tree, a station master, and two trains a day, one coming and one going. On Vijayadasami I sat down and wrote the
first sentence about my town: The train had just arrived in Malgudi Station. - R.K. Narayan
From the pen of one of India's finest writers, R K Narayan's stories are simple but manage to
capture the essence of life, love and relationships magnificently. Set in a fictional
South Indian village of Malgudi(mixture of
Malleswaram and Basavangudi), Malgudi Days depicts life in pre-Independence India with a unique flair. The stories are funny, emotional or bittersweet and remind us that life really is all these things and sometimes all at the same time. Life from the perspective of the common people is showcased in all its vivid detail and that of Indian life captured in print for all time to come in this book of short stories. I love this book and would read this again and again. It's a comfort book for me.
