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	Malgudi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malgudi is the fictitious town created by R.K. Narayan in his novel Swami and Friends.
		Narayan portrays Malgudi as a microcosm of India.
		Some believe that the name 'Malgudi' is derived from the names of the two old suburbs of Bangalore - Malleswaram and Basavangudi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malgudi (207 words)

	BookReview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Those who watched Swami and Friends and Malgudi Days on celluloid must have etched into their minds Malgudi town which is not to be found in any of the Indian maps.
		The novella by RK Narayanan is again the narration of his noted Talkative man. A catastrophe would have befallen Malgudi if the libertine Dr Rana had been successful in seducing and abducting an innocent schoolgirl who is the granddaughter of the librarian of the Town Hall library.
		Malgudi, predictably, predominates two hundreds pages of the book and the reader is struck in the locals of Kabir Street, Lawley Road, New Extension Market Road.
	www.netguruindia.com /bookreview/malgudi.html (397 words)

	R.K. Narayan's Malgudi: Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wodehouse's Blandings and Narayan's Malgudi are both mythical spots in which the genius of their creators was able to give ''airy nothings a local habitation and a name''.
		Malgudi, like his brother Laxman's ubiquitous 'Common Man' in checked coat and dhoti, is very real and identifiable everywhere precisely because it can be found nowhere.
		Malgudi is Narayan's greatest invention wherein he could put in real people, real places in one harmony of day-to-day existence and eccentricity.
	www.lifepositive.com /Mind/arts/new-age-fiction/malgudi.asp (1056 words)

	'Malgudi Days' of R.K. Narayan is now in small screen and silver screen
		An unforgettable serial Malgudi Days is coming soon once again on small screen as well as on silver screen.
		The banner, which made the highly applauded Malgudi Days in 1986 under the direction of Late Shankar Nag, is back with other stories of R.K. Narayan.
		Malgudi will be recreated in Agumbe and the work will be started immediately intended to complete the project by October 2004.
	www.viggy.com /english/current_malgudi.asp (364 words)

	R.K. Narayan
		R.K. Malgudi, the home of many lively characters such as Swami and his friends, Mr.Sampath and Nataraj is a small fictional town in Mysore but to us it seems that the place does exist in reality.
		The city of Malgudi was born out of the pen of R.K Narayan, considered to be the pioneer of Anglo-Indian writer along with G.V. Desani.
		Connoisseurs have known for years that R.K. Narayan's city of Malgudi, a hybrid of Mysore and the molten universe, is the place to go for some of the best, wisest and most affectation-free writing and some of the slyest scenes from the human comedy.
	www.rigzin.freeservers.com /rknarayan.htm (1490 words)

	R. K. Narayan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Narayan was born at Number 1 Vellala Street in Mysore, India, the third of eight surviving children.
		Most of Narayan's work, starting from his first novel Swami and friends (1935) is set in the fictional town of Malgudi which at the same time captures everything Indian while having a unique identity of its own.
		One of the few Indian-English writers spending nearly all his time in India, he went abroad to the United States in 1956 at the invitation of the Rockfeller Foundation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/R_K_Narayan (720 words)

	One Hundred Tamils - R.K.Narayan
		Most of his work, starting from his first novel Swami and Friends (1935) is set in the fictional town of Malgudi which at the same time captures everything Indian while having a unique identity of its own.
		Others of the opinion that Narayan's Malgudi is Coimbatore which has many of the landmarks - a river on one side, forests on the other, the Mission School and College, and all the extensions mentioned in the novels.
		Although Narayan never attempted to spell out the landscape to Malgudi, it has been done for him: M. Naik (2) has appended a map of Malgudi in his book 'The Ironic Vision' based on the various descriptions of the town to be found in all his stories.
	www.tamilnation.org /hundredtamils/rknarayan.htm (2095 words)

	Man-Eater of Malgudi
		In R. Narayan's 1961 The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Vasu, an eccentric taxidermist invades upon the conservative home of Nataraj, a local printer, in the fictional town of Malgudi.
		Born in 1906 in Madras, India, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan is the author of a series of novels and short stories all taking place in the fictional Indian town Malgudi.
		The symbol of the rakshasa in The Man-Eater of Malgudi serves as a symbol of Colonialism imposed upon India.
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/maneaterofmalgudi.html (965 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		He developed Malgudi as a symbol of whole of India and the river Sarayu became a witness to the history being enacted on its banks.
		Malgudi is peopled with men and women who believe in the doctrine of Karma, rebirth and rich mythical past.
		For decades Malgudi has been perceived as a quintessential Indian town, ordinary and almost uneventful, where shopkeepers ply their easy-going trades, idlers sit around gossiping, crooks go on cheating the gullible people — all in a gentle and unchanging rhythm.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010514/nation.htm (4678 words)

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		MALGUDI AND HER MONTH OF FASTING There are fine green blades of grass by way of this village and his sandlot.
		Malgudi the lamenter, he the arbiter, guiding her into a hint, into allusion.
		Malgudi and her lover, the paradox between coax and decision.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~wh/samples/sharma.html (582 words)

	Books \| R K Narayan
		Central to this was Malgudi, his fictional south Indian town, which he peopled with ordinary men and women made memorable by his art.
		Three of the novels, The Financial Expert (1952), The Guide (1958), and The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961), are generally held to represent the pinnacle of his art.
		Far from the clamour and turbulence of metropolitan India, Malgudi is a place where change is leisurely and incremental.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4186111-99819,00.html (1712 words)

	The Hindu : Imaginary homeland
		For many, the town of Malgudi, nestling somewhere in Tamil Nadu between the forested Mempi Hills and the Sarayu river, is the most memorable character in R.K. Narayan's fiction.
		Malgudi is a state of mind common to many Indian temperaments, indulgent to both enthusiastic obsessions and passive acceptance, ambition and equanimity, co-existence and co-exclusion.
		Incidentally, one of my fascinating characters from Malgudi is the 'Adjournment lawyer' to reach whose 'office' you had to walk up a ladder which rose from a room occupied by the cotton carder.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/03/stories/1303067s.htm (1135 words)

	Uthaya Sankar SB
		Malgudi comes to life in his novel, leaving a feeling that the reader is a part of Dr Narayan's fictional place.
		The small town of Malgudi, which figured often in his novels, became synonymous with Narayan, just as Wessex was for Thomas Hardy.
		Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories involving incidents and experiences in the life of the people of this fictional city named Malguidi that remains central to all of Narayan's works.
	www.geocities.com /uthayasb2001/maha.htm (2548 words)

	MALGUDI'S CREATOR
		In its registration of ordinary life in Malgudi, its unhurriedness, its imperturbable humour set against a "sad and poetic background," its many shades of irony, its never-heavy philosophising, and its detachment and constancy, this voice seems to convey something universal.
		The birth of Malgudi and the development of the writer's vision and voice cannot be separated from the exceptional, wonder-filled child growing up in early-twentieth century Madras.
		Malgudi is not Mysore (the writer's home of 70 years), nor Madras (where he was born, raised and returned to spend his final years), nor Coimbatore (which he visited frequently over the decades and treated as a second home while living in Mysore).
	www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1811/18110040.htm (4794 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Indian 'storyteller' dies
		Many saw Malgudi as typically Indian - a focal point which helped to give a sense of national identity to the country in the years before India became independent.
		His first novel, Swami and His Friends, which began the Malgudi saga, was published in 1935.
		His Malgudi Days, written in 1982, was made into a popular television serial, while The Guide won Narayan the country's highest literary award.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1327831.stm (305 words)

	Daily Telegraph (London, England): Obituary of R K Narayan; Indian novelist whose characters in the fictional city of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Obituary of R K Narayan; Indian novelist whose characters in the fictional city of Malgudi achieve peace of mind through self-knowledge.(News)(Obituary)
		Beginning with Swami and Friends (1935), he wrote more than a dozen novels and several collections of short stories set in the fictional city of Malgudi, somewhere in southern India.
		Exploring themes touching on the everyday lives of Malgudi's inhabitants, Narayan conjured up an imagined world that drew comparison with Thomas Hardy's Wessex.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:74476533&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (243 words)

	R.K. Narayan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His novels are all set in an imaginary place called Malgudi which is a typical South Indian town.
		Greene was to remain a close friend of his.
		After that, he published a continuous stream of novels, all set in Malgudi and each dealing with different characters in that fictional place.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/r/r_/r_k__narayan.html (221 words)

	rediff.com Special: 'Swami' Manjunath believes a village should be rechristened Malgudi in honour of R K Narayan
		It was actor-director Shankar Nag's television serial Malgudi Days, based on R K Narayan's novel, that made Manju a familiar face all over India.
		Malgudi Days also happened to be the first Hindi serial to be made in south India.
		Yet, all you need to do is go to Triveni Main Road in Yeshwantpur and ask for the house of 'Master Manjunath,' which was his screen name, and anyone will show you the tiny house built long ago with Manju's own earnings.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/may/16spec.htm (1409 words)

	Bookbuzz :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Soon, Rajam is leaving Malgudi, and before Swami can express his feelings for his dear friend, the train chugs away.
		Malgudi Schooldays is a book that can be enjoyed by growing children, wherever they might live.
		Malgudi, the imaginary town that is Swami’s home, forms an important part of all of them.
	www.dimdima.com /bookbuzz/show_books.asp?q_bid=31 (474 words)

	SiliconIndia.com - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is R.K. Narayan’s classic chronicle of the adventures of a boy named Swami, and his friends Rajam and Mani, in a sleepy and picturesque South Indian town called Malgudi.
		Swami’s days are full of action—when he is not creating a ruckus in the classroom or preparing in his inimitable way for exams, he’s trying to acquire a hoop from the coachman’s son to run down the Malgudi streets, playing tricks on his grandmother, or stoning the school windows, inspired by a swadeshi demonstration.
		Malgudi Schooldays is a brilliantly evocative and delightfully funny account of the growing-up years from one of the greatest English language writers of our time.
	www.siliconindia.com /books/newbooks/BooksdetailsIntro.asp?bid=660 (214 words)

	tribuneindia...Book Reviews
		OSTLY historians have focused on social and economic history during the past 50 years and derided political history which was then relegated to the background.
		He develops Malgudi as the symbol of the whole of India and the river Sarayu becomes a witness to the history being enacted in the town of Malgudi.
		“The Man-Eater of Malgudi” (1962) includes such fads that are important for modernising Malgudi, the incursion of intruders from outside, and eccentric lotus-eaters of the town.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99dec26/book.htm (5699 words)

	GN Online: Lively tribute to R. K. Narayan
		The 'Vendor of Sweets' became vendors of snacks as boys sat cross-legged in a class room with baskets of fried goodies from the South while a 10-year-old astrologer told his clients that they would be winning Mercedes Benz cars, become school principals and so on.
		Perhaps, what took the cake was the 15-minute skit, 'Bringing Swami into the City', by groups of 15 participants each from five schools to render a 'modern Swami' as the children perceived the character.
		In the book, 10-year-old Swami leads a life that is a series of adventures and mischief with his friends in Malgudi driven by his all consuming passion-MCC or the Malgudi Cricket Club.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=40168 (506 words)

	Women in Panchayati Raj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Haleuru gram panchayat is located between Malgudi, the district headquarters, and Balgudi, the taluk HQ—it is 17 km from each on the main highway.
		Ms Gangamma and Ms Jamunavva were elected President and Vice President of Malgudi District panchayat, defeating Shri Honappa and Shri Siddappa respectively, when elections became due after the earlier incumbents had completed their 20-month term of office.
		Ms Jamunavva was elected from Hosaouru in Malgudi taluk on a party B ticket.
	magnet.undp.org /events/gender/india/VYASULU3.htm (10380 words)

	Literary Forums - Malgudi Days by R.K.Narayan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories written by R.K.Narayan and probably the most famous title associated with R.K.Narayan with the possible exception of Swami and Friends.
		The author makes absolutely no effort to relate to the reader in many parts and so sometimes the reader might feel alienated or remote from the stories, especially a non-Indian reader.
		The whole mood of Malgudi's Days is different: more restrained, more reserved and emotionally lighter.
	www.literaryforums.org /forums/about434.html (591 words)

	Amazon.com: Malgudi Days (Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: R. K. Narayan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Malgudi Days was my introduction to R.K. Narayan and frankly I have been wondering where he's been all my life.
		Malgudi days is a collection of short stories written by R. K Narayan.
		Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories centered around the fabled town of Malgudi, which is the author's own creation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140185437?v=glance (1427 words)

	Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He had his early schooling in Madras, but moved to Mysore when his father was appointed Head Master of the Maharaja's high school there, and got his bachelors' degree from the University of Mysore.
		Narayan's fiction is remarkable for capturing with ironic humor the human foibles of ordinary men and women, set in the fictitious town of Malgudi which closely resembles Mysore city.
		The locale of his fiction hardly ever shifts from Malgudi and its environs--the outstanding exception being The Guide (1958), where the hero Raju turns his back to Malgudi when he comes out of jail.
	www.meghdutam.com /authorstemp.php?name=writer21.htm&&printer=0 (495 words)

	The Indian Express: Top stories: Full story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As hungry consumers of the town’s chronicles mourn the passing away of its creator, the unthinkanble must now be negotiated.
		We never will, but the gentle cadences of Malgudi that helped so many of us cartograph our admittedly varied universes also attracted critics irritated with the absence of turmoil and in-your-face social ferment.
		Yet, it was in Narayan’s Malgudi that issues like feminism and the untenable assault on the environment were first expressed, long before they became rallying cries in independent India.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie20010515/ed3.html (414 words)

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		ADITI DE Narayan's stories about Malgudi continue to charm readers today.
		No matter what your answer is, Malgudi's creator — R. Narayan — remains among the first Indian writers in English to earn a global reputation.
		Malgudi has come a long way since his first novel, Swami and Friends, published in 1935.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005070803580200.htm&date=2005/07/08/&prd=yw& (422 words)

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