Malgudi is the fictitious town created by R.K. Narayan in his novel Swami and Friends. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. Narayan portrays Malgudi as a microcosm of India. While describing how he conceptualised Malgudi he says Alternate history Campaign setting Fantasy world Fictional battlegrounds Fictional buildings Fictional city Fictional company Fictional counties Fictional country Fictional schools List of fictional Cambridge colleges List of fictional Oxford colleges Fictional universe List of fictional universes Future history Imaginary country Imaginary state Imaginary union Multiverse Mythical place Parallel universe Phantom... R.K. Narayan - 1906 - 2001 Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001) was an Indian novelist. ... Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by R.K. Narayan, a celebrated English novelist from India. ...

"Malgudi was an earth-shaking discovery for me, because I had no mind for facts and things like that, which would be necessary in writing about Lalgudi or any real place. I first pictured not my town but just the railway station, which was a small platform with a banyan tree, a station master, and two trains a day, one coming and one going. On Vijayadasami I sat down and wrote the first sentence about my town: The train had just arrived in Malgudi Station."

Various critics compare Narayan's Malgudi with Thomas Hardy's Wessex or William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. Unlike Hardy and Faulkner, Narayan has drawn out no map for Malgudi and has kept it purely a "country of the mind". Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ... Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England. ... William Faulkner photographed 1954 by Carl Van Vechten William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. ... Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels. ...

Some believe that the name 'Malgudi' is derived from the names of the two old suburbs of Bangalore - Malleswaram and Basavangudi. Bangalore (Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು) (pronounced // in Kannada and // in English) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. ...

Agumbe, a small village on the western ghats served the screening of most of the episodes of Malgudi Days. For the delight of innumerable number of fans of Malgudi Days, the first series of episodes are now available on DVD. See www.agumbe.com for details.

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• Malgudi explained