Malgudi: A World of Culture and Tradition

Abstract

A study of the cultural ethos of a community initiates a dialogue between the people of that community and the place where the cultural ethos either originated or flourished. This fiction, the town of Malgudi exudes such an in-depth connection with the characters living in and around it. Though Malgudi is an imaginary town, it has been regarded as “a real living presence” (Hariprasanna, 1994: 23) that “operates at two levels, the human and the topographical” (Hariprasanna, 1994: 23). We would analyse the spatial significance of ‘Malgudi’ in relation to the author’s style of representing the Indian nation in the printed text. Secondly, we critically examine the backdrop in the film text as a crucial deviation from the source text.