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I have started reading Malgudi days by R K Narayan and almost in the finishing stage of Ormakalude Album by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan.
I liked malayattoors simple and touching writing style and his quiet humour sense and shrewd observations in his official and personal life. He has written sincerely about the various power struggles, incidents and characters of his family, friends and other people whom he had come to interact. I guess he was a simple, straight forward, shrewd-thiking, and above all sincere person with a good heart. He might have had some habits like smoking, non-vegetarianism etc which might be regarded as not fitting a orthodox brahmin, but those can be excused for the huge natural talent he had
I wish I had written such a book :-)
Malgudi Days which I have just started, is one of the classic books which I always wanted to read. I used to follow it as a tele-serial quite some years back. These stories written with narayan's simple style and characteristic gentle irony portray the variety and colour of indian life. In his introduction, Narayan says "I have named this book MALGUDI DAYS in order to give it a plausibly gfeographical status. I am often asked "where is malgudi?". All I can say is that it is imaginary and not to be found in any map... if I explain that Malgudi is a small town in south india I shall only be expressing a half truth,for the characteristics of Malgudi seem to me as Universal." We can surely agree to all this
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