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<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Malgudi.jpg|right|250px|A drawing by R. K. Laxman for his brother R.K. Narayan's malgudi Days]] -->{{Infobox fictional location|creator=[[R. K. Narayan]]|blank_label=Country|blank_data=[[India]]|first=[[Swami and Friends]]|last=}} | <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Malgudi.jpg|right|250px|A drawing by R. K. Laxman for his brother R.K. Narayan's malgudi Days]] -->{{Infobox fictional location|creator=[[R. K. Narayan]]|blank_label=Country|blank_data=[[India]]|first=''[[Swami and Friends]]'' (1935)|last=}} | ||
'''Malgudi''' is a [[fictional town]] located in [[South India]] in [[Ramanathapuram]] in the novels and short stories of [[R. K. Narayan]]. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. Starting with his first novel, ''[[Swami and Friends]]'' | '''Malgudi''' is a [[fictional town]] located in [[South India]] in [[Ramanathapuram]] in the novels and short stories of [[R. K. Narayan]]. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. Starting with his first novel, ''[[Swami and Friends]]'' , all but one of his fifteen novels and most of his short stories take place here. Malgudi was a portmanteau of two Bangalore localities - Malleshwaram and Basavanagudi. | ||
Narayan has successfully portrayed Malgudi as a microcosm of [[India]]. Malgudi was created, as mentioned in ''[[Malgudi Days (short story collection)|Malgudi Days]]'', by Sir Fredrick Lawley, a fictional [[British Raj|British]] officer in the 19th century by combining and developing a few villages. The character of Sir Fredrick Lawley may have been based on [[Arthur Lawley]], the [[Governor of Madras]] in 1905.<ref>{{cite book|last=Narayan|first=R.K.|title=Lawley Road and other stories|year=1956|publisher=Orient Paperbacks|location=Madras|isbn=0882530623|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6536959-lawley-road-other-stories}}</ref> But now MP of [[Shimoga (Lok Sabha constituency)]] has requested [[Indian Railways]] to rename [[Arasalu]] Railway Station a small station on [[Shimoga-Talaguppa railway]] line to Malgudi Railway station. | Narayan has successfully portrayed Malgudi as a microcosm of [[India]]. Malgudi was created, as mentioned in ''[[Malgudi Days (short story collection)|Malgudi Days]]'', by Sir Fredrick Lawley, a fictional [[British Raj|British]] officer in the 19th century by combining and developing a few villages. The character of Sir Fredrick Lawley may have been based on [[Arthur Lawley]], the [[Governor of Madras]] in 1905.<ref>{{cite book|last=Narayan|first=R.K.|title=Lawley Road and other stories|year=1956|publisher=Orient Paperbacks|location=Madras|isbn=0882530623|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6536959-lawley-road-other-stories}}</ref> But now MP of [[Shimoga (Lok Sabha constituency)]] has requested [[Indian Railways]] to rename [[Arasalu]] Railway Station a small station on [[Shimoga-Talaguppa railway]] line to Malgudi Railway station. | ||
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Mempi forest is on the other side of Sarayu. It houses many hills and caves. Animals to be found there include [[tigers]], members of the [[deer]] family, [[langurs]] and [[water buffalo]]s. | Mempi forest is on the other side of Sarayu. It houses many hills and caves. Animals to be found there include [[tigers]], members of the [[deer]] family, [[langurs]] and [[water buffalo]]s. | ||
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Various critics compare Narayan's Malgudi with [[Thomas Hardy]]'s [[Wessex]] or [[William Faulkner]]'s [[Yoknapatawpha]]. It was a town created from his own experiences, his childhood, his upbringing. The people in it were people he met every day. He thus created a place which every Indian could relate to. A place, where, in the words of [[Graham Greene]] (from the introduction to ''The Financial Expert''), you could go "into those loved and shabby streets and see with excitement and a certainty of pleasure a stranger approaching past the bank, the cinema, the hair cutting saloon, a stranger who will greet us, we know, with some unexpected and revealing phrase that will open the door to yet another human existence." | Various critics compare Narayan's Malgudi with [[Thomas Hardy]]'s [[Wessex]] or [[William Faulkner]]'s [[Yoknapatawpha]]. It was a town created from his own experiences, his childhood, his upbringing. The people in it were people he met every day. He thus created a place which every Indian could relate to. A place, where, in the words of [[Graham Greene]] (from the introduction to ''The Financial Expert''), you could go "into those loved and shabby streets and see with excitement and a certainty of pleasure a stranger approaching past the bank, the cinema, the hair cutting saloon, a stranger who will greet us, we know, with some unexpected and revealing phrase that will open the door to yet another human existence." | ||
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''[[Malgudi Days (TV series)|Malgudi Days]]'' a 1986 Indian television series directed by [[Kannada]] actor and director [[Shankar Nag]], based on the eponymous works of R.K. Narayan was mostly shot near [[Agumbe]] in [[Shimoga]] District, [[Karnataka]]. Some episodes, however, were also shot at [[Bengaluru]] and [[Devarayanadurga]] in [[Tumakuru]] District, Karnataka. | ''[[Malgudi Days (TV series)|Malgudi Days]]'' a 1986 Indian television series directed by [[Kannada]] actor and director [[Shankar Nag]], based on the eponymous works of R.K. Narayan was mostly shot near [[Agumbe]] in [[Shimoga]] District, [[Karnataka]]. Some episodes, however, were also shot at [[Bengaluru]] and [[Devarayanadurga]] in [[Tumakuru]] District, Karnataka. | ||
The concept of ''Malgudi'' as an "idyllic spot located in [[South India]]" seems to have taken root in popular imagination. Some restaurants offering South Indian fare go by the name or extensions of ''"Malgudi."'' The Shyam Group operates Malgudi restaurants in [[Chennai]], [[Bangalore|Bengaluru]] and [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/Hotelsandtours/Events/03malgudi.asp |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012193227/http://chennaionline.com/Hotelsandtours/Events/03malgudi.asp |archive-date=12 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/12/16/stories/2004121601430100.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517213902/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/12/16/stories/2004121601430100.htm |archive-date=17 May 2011 |url-status= | The concept of ''Malgudi'' as an "idyllic spot located in [[South India]]" seems to have taken root in popular imagination. Some restaurants offering South Indian fare go by the name or extensions of ''"Malgudi."'' The Shyam Group operates Malgudi restaurants in [[Chennai]], [[Bangalore|Bengaluru]] and [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chennaionline.com/Hotelsandtours/Events/03malgudi.asp |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012193227/http://chennaionline.com/Hotelsandtours/Events/03malgudi.asp |archive-date=12 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/12/16/stories/2004121601430100.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517213902/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/12/16/stories/2004121601430100.htm |archive-date=17 May 2011 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> A restaurant named "Malgudi Junction" is located in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061015/asp/calcutta/story_6866554.asp |title=The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro |website=www.telegraphindia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033140/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061015/asp/calcutta/story_6866554.asp |archive-date=2007-09-30}} </ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
{{Portal|India}} | {{Portal|India}} | ||
* [[Malgudi Days (disambiguation)|Malgudi Days]] | * [[Malgudi Days (disambiguation)|Malgudi Days]] | ||
* [[Masinagudi]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||