A beggar from this place is made rich by a clever performing monkey in the story ";The Mute Companion."
A beggar from this place is made rich by a clever performing monkey in the story ";The Mute Companion."; A storyteller from this place decides that he has no more stories to tell, so his last story will be that of ";silence."; A character from this place enrolls in a creative writing programin Michigan and gets married to Grace. That character, Mali, asks his dad, a resident of this place, to invest in a factory that makes machines for writing stories. Novels set here include one in which a man from Timbuctoo hoodwinks its ";man-eater,"; called the Talkative Man, as well as one in which the title ";Financial Expert"; dispenses advice while underneath a banyan tree. Founded by Frederick Lawley, this place's inhabitants include Raman, a painter of signs, as well as Mani and Rajam, who often play with Swami. For 10 points, name this fictional town created by R. K. Narayan.
A beggar from this place is made rich by a clever performing monkey in the story ";The Mute Companion."
Malgudi [prompt on India]