Malguid Days is a short-story collection by Indian writer R. K. Narayan. Originally published in India in 1943, it was republished internationally by Penguin Classics in 1982. The collection follows the lives of different people all living in the invented South Indian town of Malgudi. Each story gives insight into a person's life and routine which is then disrupted. Many of the characters are living on very little, simply getting by each day, and nearly all stories contain a bit of irony and/or a twist ending.
In 1986, director Shankar Nag adapted a number of the stories from the collection into a television series of the same name. The project was revived in 2004 by filmmaker Kavitha...
