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'An astrologer's day ' and Others Stories

आर. के. नारायण

I AM BACK

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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

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Parts

" An astrologer day "

29 October 2023

Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cow

THE MISSION MAIL

29 October 2023

THOUGH his beat covered Vinayak Mudali Street and its four parallel roads, it took him nearly six hours before he finished his round and returned to the head office in Market Road to deliver a

THE DOCTOR'S WORD

29 October 2023

PEOPLE came to him when the patient was on his last legs. Dr. Raman often burst out, " Why couldn't you have come a day earlier ? " The reason was obvious visiting fee twenty-five rupees, and

GATEMAN'S GIFT

30 October 2023

WHEN a dozen persons question openly or slyly a man's sanity, he begins to entertain serious doubts himself. This is what happened to ex-gateman Govind Singh. And you could not blame the p

THE ROMAN IMAGE

30 October 2023

THE Talkative Man said : Once I was an archaeologist's assistant. I wandered up and down the country probing, exploring, and digging, in search of antiquities, a most interesting occupatio

THE BLIND DOG

30 October 2023

IT was not a very impressive or high-class dog ; it was one of those commonplace dogs one sees everywhere colour of white and dust, tail mutilated at a young age by God knows whom, born in

THE WATCHMAN

31 October 2023

THERE was still a faint splash of red on the western horizon. The watchman stood on the tank bund and took a final survey. All the people who had come for evening walks had returned to their hom

FELLOW FEELING

31 October 2023

THE Madras-Bangalore Express was due to start in a few minutes. Trolleys and HE Madras-Bangalore Express was due to start in a few minutes. Trolleys and barrows piled with trunks and beds rattled t

THE TIGER'S CLAW

31 October 2023

THE man-eater's dark career was ended. The men who had laid it low were the heroes of the day. They were garlanded with chrysanthemum flowers and seated on the arch of the highest bullock cart a

THE PERFORMING CHILD

1 November 2023

THE child was still in bed dreaming : she was given a green railway engine just large enough to accommodate her. She got into it and drove it all over the garden. Near the jasmine plant she stop

ISWARAN

1 November 2023

WHEN the whole of the student world in Malgudi was convulsed with excitement, on a certain evening in June when the Intermediate Examination results were being expected, Iswaran went about his b

A SANKE IN THE GRASS

ON a sunny afternoon, when the inmates of the bungalow were at their siesta a cyclist rang his bell at the gate frantically and announced : "A big cobra has got into your compound. It crossed

AN ACCIDENT

I WAS returning from the hill temple where I had been held up till nearly nine o'clock. I had driven the car down the hill, turned to my left, and gone a few yards further skirting the bas

AN ACCIDENT

I WAS returning from the hill temple where I had been held up till nearly nine o'clock. I had driven the car down the hill, turned to my left, and gone a few yards further skirting the base of t

A CAREER

THE Talkative Man said : Years and years ago I had a shop. It was in those days when Lawley Extension was not what it is now. It consisted of less than a hundred houses. Market Road being

FATHER'S HELP

LYING in bed, Swami realized with a shudder that it was Monday morning. It looked as though only a moment ago it had been the last period on Friday ; already Monday was there. He hoped tha

THE SNAKE SONG

WE were coming out of the music hall quite pleased with the concert. We thought it a very fine performance. We thought so till we noticed the Talkative Man in our midst. He looked as thoug

FORTY FIVE A MONTH

O HANTA could not stay in her class any longer. *^ She had done clay-modelling, music, drill, a bit of alphabets and numbers, and was now cutting coloured paper. She would have to cut till

DASI THE BRIDEGROOM

HIS name was Dasi. In all the Extension there was none like him an uncouth fellow with a narrow tapering head, bulging eyes, and fat neck ; below the neck he had an immense body, all muscl

OUT OF BUSINESS

LITTLE over a year ago Rama Rao went out of work when a gramophone company, of which he was the Malgudi agent, went out of existence. He had put into that agency the little money he had in

OLD BONES

THE Talkative Man said : I was canvassing agent for a company manufacturing chemical fertilizers, and my work took me into the country for over twenty days in the month. One night I was he

ATTILA

IN a mood of optimism they named him " Attila." What they wanted of a dog was strength, formidableness, and fight, and hence he was named after the " Scourge of Europe." The puppy was

THE AXE

AN astrologer passing through the village foretold that Velan would live in a three- storied house surrounded by many acres of garden. At this every- body gathered round young Velan and mad

ENGINE TROUBLE

THERE came down to our town some years ago (said the Talkative Man) a showman owning an institution called the Gaiety Land. Overnight our Gymkhana Grounds became resplendent with banners a

ALL AVOIDABLE TALK

ALL AVOIDABLE TALK HE was told to avoid all quarrels that day. The stars were out to trouble him, and even the mildest of his remarks likely to offend and lead to a quarrel. The planets were s

FRUITION AT FORTY

RAMA Rao obtained his officer's permission to absent himself on the following day. " Happy returns," exclaimed his officer. " Honestly, I did not think you were forty ! " Walking down the road t

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

"WHAT is sixteen and three multiplied? "Barked the teacher. The boy blinked. The teacher persisted, and the boy promptly answered : " Twenty- four," with, as it seemed to the teacher, a wic

UNDER THE BANYAN TREE