NP RIP R. K. Narayan

[Doug Millison]

...but Malgudi lives...

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/obituaries/14NARA.html
R. K. Narayan, India's Prolific Storyteller, Dies at 94
[...]  "I chose to be writer," he later told a radio interviewer, "mainly
because it is the only career which guarantees absolute freedom to live as
one pleases."

"On a certain day in September, selected by my grandmother for its
auspiciousness, I bought an exercise book and wrote the first line of a
novel," Mr. Narayan remembered in his memoir "My Days" (1974). "As I sat in
a room nibbling my pen and wondering what to write, Malgudi with its little
railroad station swam into view, all ready-made." [...]