My Days (24 page)

My Dateless Diary

The Emerald Route

ESSAYS

Next Sunday

Reluctant Guru

Copyright © 1973, 1974 by R. K. Narayan

M
Y DAYS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Narayan, R. K., 1906-

My days: a memoir / by R. K. Narayan.

p.     cm.

ISBN 0-88001-625-6

EPub Edition August 2013 ISBN 9780062307378

1. Narayan, R. K., 1906-
–Biography.
2. Novelists, India –20th century–Biography.
3. India–Intellectual life –20th century.

I. Title

PR9499.3.N3Z52
1999

823–dc21

[B]
98-14082

CIP

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

FIRST ECCO EDITION 1999

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*
An ancient Tamil poetess.

*
Known as
Siddhis
in Sanskrit. There are eight of them, such as walking on fire, water, ability to transmute, to attain invisibility and all kinds of controls over the elements.

*
A pure freak from the forests, where some primeval hurricane, sweeping through, seems to have lashed together as in an irrevocable deadlock or wedlock two neighbouring teakwood saplings and left them to grow up spirally.