THE WRITER WE FORGOT R. K. NARAYAN PART-13 DEDICATED TO ANSHIKA CHAUDHARY MALGUDI DAYS (BOOK) Author: R. K. Narayan Country: India Language: English Genre: Short story collections Publisher: Indian Thought Publications: Publication date: 1943 Media type: Print ISBN 81-85986-17-7 OCLC 7813056 Preceded by: The Dark Room Followed by: The English Teacher Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. The book was republished outside India in 1982. The book includes 19 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. The New York Times described the virtue of the book as everyone in the book seems to have a capacity for responding to the quality of his particular hour. Its an art we need to study and revive. 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. In 2004, the project was revived with film-maker Kavitha Lankesh replacing the late Shankar Nag as director. The new series was telecast from April 26, 2006 on Doordarshan. Chapters • An Astrologers Day: A short story in which an astrologer meets his rival who he thought had for long been dead. • The Missing Mail: A story about Thannappa, a postman who doesnt deliver a letter because of celebrations in a house. • The Doctors Word: A story about Dr Raman, a doctor who believes good words cant save lives, but tells a lie to his friend about his bad health. • The Blind Dog: A story about a blind beggar who catches a dog to guide him through the streets. And he turns greedy, and also starts torturing the dog. • Fellow Feeling: A story about Rajam Iyer, a Tamil Brahmin who is travelling in a train compartment and gets accused by a fellow passenger for eating fish. • The Tigers Claw: A story about the talkative man, it is told as a flashback, when he goes to a remote area and faces a man-eating Tiger. • Iswaran: A story about a boy named Iswaran who failed his Intermediate Exams ten times, and when he passes it, in happiness, he gets drowned in the river Sarayu. • Such Perfection: A story about a man who carved an image of god, that caused, because of its perfection, caused heavy natural calamities. • Fathers Help: A story about a boy named Swami, who didnt want to go to school, and told a lie that his teacher Samuel is very much violent, but his father writes a complaint to his principal. • Short story collections by R. K. Narayan • 1943 short story collections • Indian literature stubs youtube/watch?v=KUUjIVK38ok
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