Status Updates From My Days: A Memoir

Narayan is the best Indian writer ever. He was born in 1906. As a child he was a voracious reader of English lit, magazines, and fun fiction. He started writing by imitating the style of his favorite authors. Then he found his own style.

"While I was hesitating whether to leave my hero alive or dead at the end of the story, Graham was definite that he should die. So I have in my hands the life of a man condemned to death before he was born and grown and I have to plan my narrative to lead to it."

The writing of "The Guide". In a hotel in Berkeley, 1956.