https://starofmysore.com/a-tree-in-malgudi/ Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3 https://starofmysore.com/a-tree-in-malgudi/#comment-7185 Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:12:23 +0000 https://starofmysore.com/?p=95069#comment-7185 “The author himself, according to acquaintances, did not have a dog and avoided the pets he met on his walk”
RKN might have done this in 1950s, but not in 1960s as he was whizzing through the roads in his Mercedes. Having lived in Mysuru for decades, would you say, he talked in Kannada and loved everything in Mysuru? I doubt it.

]]> https://starofmysore.com/a-tree-in-malgudi/#comment-5747 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:09:49 +0000 https://starofmysore.com/?p=95069#comment-5747 This story took me straight back to 1998 when I took the train to Mysore on one fine Monday morning to meet R K Narayan. And did I meet the great man in his house? You can read about it here: http://www.vinayjalla.co.uk/blog-vinayjalla/thedayimetthecreatorofmalgudi%E2%80%93rknarayan

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