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WHERE IS MALGUDI?

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R. K. NARAYAN talks to WILLIAM WALSH
In ten novels and many short stories the distinguished Indian novelist R. K. Narayan has made the southern Indian town of Malgudi known throughout the world. On a recent visit to this country, Narayan recorded this conversation with .William Walsh, author of A Human Idiom (a study of Commonwealth Literature) and Professor of Education in the University of Leeds. Narayan talks of his personal background, about how Malgudi came to be, and the processes he finds vital for writing novels in English in India.

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R. K. Narayan
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