The Financial Expert by R K Narayan Sri Lankan architecture In this international bestseller

In this international bestseller

and this collection of photographs

By a rain-drenched gravesite

or translated from Tamil and Sinhala

Journey to a strange village and learn the secret of their hats

The Financial Expert by R K Narayan Sri Lankan architecture In this international bestsellerMargayya is a complex and entrancing character with a flair for those fabulously involved minor financial transactions which are an integral part of Indian life. We first meet him sitting in the shade of a banyan tree, advising the people of Malgudi how to extract loans from the Co operative Bank. A brush with the Secretary of the Bank, and an accident in which his spoilt son Babu throws his accounts book down a drain, cut short his career as a