Set in a fictitious town of Malgudi, these are collection of short stories every Indian from a small town can relate to. The characters are so live, with their "real life" picturization and their own little day to day struggle. Malgudi days can never be a boring read, every time you read it you will find something interesting, some new layers are always to be deciphered. A true reflection of the society we live in!
The stories depicts rightly the struggle of unemployment be it Rama of the’Martyr’s Corner’ or Raju in’Trail of the Green Blazer’. Thanappa from’The Missing Mail’, Govind in’Gateman’s Gift’ are some of the other characters from his stories who portray very well the "working class", the people with less income, yet with something exciting and twists in their lives. The most important aspect of a story lies in its ability to make the reader comfortable to its characters and R.K Narayan uses his pen to weave such characters in our minds.