
As a young boy with no interest in school, he trains grasshoppers, scouts, and generally takes part in life's excitements. Narayan shares his life story, beginning in his grandmother's garden in Madras with his ferocious pet peacock.

Narayan, hailed as "India's most notable novelist and short-story writer" by the New York Times Book Review.


"I am inclined to call this the last chapter, but how can an autobiography have a final chapter? At best, it can only be a penultimate one nor can it be given a rounded-off conclusion, as is possible in a work of fiction." So begins the last chapter of My Days, the only memoir from R.
