Word: malgudi
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...Narayan had begun, so he continued. Fame, when it came, ensured that he remained the man of Malgudi. He couldn't develop. He could only go for a walk and look for a new character...
...after the bad history of India, the invasions and the dispossessions, and after the rigors of the recent independence struggle. But it was in keeping with the mystical, almost Gandhian, idea of India he had laid out in 1949 in Mr. Sampath (in the United States, The Printer of Malgudi): the idea of an eternal India, ever healing, ever renewed. He had been too long away from India, he said. He was getting restless; he needed to go for his walks, to be among his characters...
...their narrow talent. And he even makes the devil seem a doubtful presence. But only once does he manage to sound like Remain Gary: "An idealist is a son-of-a-bitch who thinks that the earth is not a good enough place for him." THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI...
This is a tale about a reluctant swami. The setting is Malgudi, a sleepy little Indian town dedicated to daydreaming nonviolence. One of Malgudi's daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled villager says, "I have a problem, sir" and Raju hears him out, the stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile...