R.K. Narayan's Malgudi milieu: a sensitive world of grotesque realism

This book projects R.K. Narayan as a writer who, unlike many of his contemporaries was able to address his times and country of birth without giving in to the ruling influences of certain ideologies which made the works of many of his peers monologic, and even pedagogic.

It underscores the influence of colonial capitalism in India and the advent of a new and strange class of people who responded to the market economy with gusto.

The book also shows how Narayan's approach is ethical in nature without being harsh on the people he critiques.