Narayan’s Malgudi is built through language that quietly reproduces caste hierarchies rather than naming them. A forgotten episode in Swami and Friends reveals how everyday speech enables social ...

R.K. Narayan is one of India’s most prolific writers, honoured with a Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan award. He is famously known for writing ‘Malgudi Days’. In 1933, Narayan met a 15-year-old girl ...

Malgudi Schooldays is a book that my parents used to read when they were little so it's a classic. It's a book where a boy named Swami, indeed a funny little boy who has 2 friends Rajam and Mani, are ...

The 1986 TV show Malgudi Days, based on RK Narayan’s works and directed by Shankar Nag, became a phenomenon in no time. Set in British India, in a fictional town called Malgudi, the show focused on ...

As the number of covid-19 cases in Bengaluru continued to soar over the weekend, the chief minister of Karnataka, BS Yediyurappa, had a slice of cheerful news to offer. On 8 August, he tweeted about ...