As all fans of R.K. Narayan’s Swami and his stories set in
Malgudi know, while Malgudi is meant to be an imaginary town, it nevertheless gives us a sense of quintessential small-town India, something that several readers rush to lay claim to. Politicians too, seem to be returning to Karnataka, to find and cling on to a Malgudi they can call their own. The Congress has its Chikamangalur (and now Davangere) dream of an adrenaline push; the Third Front hopes against hope that the Dobbespet hand-holding lasts for ever; and the BJP, well, it’s hoping its assembly dream run here could just, somehow, be replicated elsewhere.
seema.chishti@expressindia.com
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