RK Narayan

Step into the sun-dappled streets of Malgudi with R.K. Narayan, one of India's greatest English-language writers and the creator of one of literature's most beloved fictional towns. With warmth, gentle irony, and an extraordinary gift for capturing the rhythms of everyday Indian life, Narayan crafted a body of work that is at once deeply local and universally human.

• The Guide — winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award and his masterpiece
• Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, and the Malgudi novels
• Malgudi Days — the beloved short story collection
• The Ramayana and The Mahabharata — his acclaimed retellings of the epics