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Malgudi Days" contains 19 short stories written by R.K. Narayan. Each chapter portrays the author as a different person in a different profession. For example, Narayan takes on the role of an astrologer, a postman, a doctor, a blind beggar, a Brahmin, a man who faces down a man-eating tiger, a man who carves an image of God, and a boy who does not want to go to school.
Each character is a citizen of Narayan's fictitious town of Malgudi. According to the New York Times, are all believed to be Indian. Each story portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. Narayan created a remarkably complete historical record.
Narayan is one of the most widely known Indian authors writing in English, and is credited with bringing Indian literature to the rest of the world. In 1986 "Malgudi Days" and two of Narayan's other books were adapted as a television series that ran for 39 episodes on the Doordarshan broadcast network in India, each about 20 minutes long. The series was remade in 2004 and broadcast in 2006.
"Malgudi days" is a "collection of short stories" published in "1943" which is written by a widely known Indian author named "RK Narayanan".
It has 32 stories which took place in a fictional town called Malgudi. Few of these short stories were adapted and shown as a television series in Dhoordarshan, which was also named as Malgudi days.
The tone of these stories was similar to the stories written in the nineteenth century. Every story has a surprised and open ending climax.
RK Narayanan himself was a part of these stories. He appeared in different roles and professions in every story he wrote.
"An astrologer's day", "the blind dog", "Iswaran", "father's help" (which has Swami as the main protagonist from RK Narayanan's first novel, ""Swami and friends"), "Naga", "Hungry child", "Forty-five a month", etc. are some of the stories in this book."