Authors: R. K. Narayan
My Dateless Diary
The Emerald Route
ESSAYS
Next Sunday
Reluctant Guru
Copyright © 1973, 1974 by R. K. Narayan
M
Y DAYS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Narayan, R. K., 1906-
My days: a memoir / by R. K. Narayan.
p.     cm.
ISBN 0-88001-625-6
EPub Edition August 2013 ISBN 9780062307378
1. Narayan, R. K., 1906-
âBiography.
2. Novelists, India â20th centuryâBiography.
3. IndiaâIntellectual life â20th century.
I. Title
PR9499.3.N3Z52
1999
823âdc21
[B]
98-14082
CIP
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FIRST ECCO EDITION 1999
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An ancient Tamil poetess.
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Known as
Siddhis
in Sanskrit. There are eight of them, such as walking on fire, water, ability to transmute, to attain invisibility and all kinds of controls over the elements.
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A pure freak from the forests, where some primeval hurricane, sweeping through, seems to have lashed together as in an irrevocable deadlock or wedlock two neighbouring teakwood saplings and left them to grow up spirally.