The Missing Mail Introduction

Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan was born on 10^th October 1906 in Madras in India. He was a prolific Indian writer whose exquisitely crafted stories and novels provided witty and perceptive observations about life in India. He has published numerous novels, five collections of short stories, two travel books, four collections of essays, a memoir and some translations of Indian myths and epics. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 'The Guide' (1958). "The Missing Mail" has been taken from the collection Malgudi Days which has stories involving incidents and experiences in the life of the people of the fictional city named Malgudi that remains central to all of Narayan's works.