the missing mail

‘The Missing Mail’ by the ‘Grand Old Man of Malgudi’ R.K. Narayan is a short story set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi explaining how a postmaster saved the marriage of a young seventeen-year-old girl by not delivering a postcard and then a telegram on time. The short story is a classic example of R.K. Narayan’s usual Malgudi short stories and is contained in his … [Read more...] about ‘The Missing Mail’ by R.K. Narayan: Short Story Analysis