R. K. Narayan
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"Malgudi Home
[ From the archives of the Times of India]
R K Narayan’s abode now ‘Malgudi Home’
Writer R K Narayan’s Mysore home will now be called ‘Malgudi Home’ after the author’s famous titles. Karnataka urban development minister S Suresh Kumar on Wednesday announced that House No 15, Vivekananda Road, Yadavagiri, Mysore, will be acquired by the government from a builder, to whom it had been sold by the writer’s family for about Rs 1.8 crore. Prior to this, he met officials, experts and Narayan’s grand-daughter Bhuvaneshwari Devi. The action came after TOI’s reports about the demolition of the house. After the acquisition, the government plans to spend Rs 50 lakh to restore it. The minister said that a committee would be constituted to draw up a plan. The government wants to have a library and a seminar hall for young writers of Mysore University. The house, built in 1951, has been lying vacant after Narayan’s death on May, 13, 2001 in Chennai. It has with six bedrooms. Though it was not occupied till 1966 as Narayan was living with his joint family on Seshadri Iyer Road, he used the place daily to write.
