An Episode of Malgudi Day Play Written by R.K. Naryan & Directed by Shankar Nag
Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of
Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial
stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other
things British.
The Bachelor of Arts is a poignant coming-of-age novel
about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is
hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In
The Dark
Room, Narayan’s portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient
Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husband’s
humiliations and trying to escape them. The title character in
The English
Teacher, Narayan’s most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when
the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of
happiness.