Tiger For Malgudi

I remember watching Malgudi Days. I tried to read the books also but gave up as I thought stories are going to be the same. This title, however, was different and it represented a different way of story-telling from writer.A Tiger for Malgudi, is a biography of a tiger. His story starts with being an unquestioned and untamed king of the jungle and then gets captured and is forced to be obedient to his Captain in a circus and then surrenders again but this time voluntarily to a Sadhu.The way writer describes how a living soul must act and think goes against every cell of how we live day-by-day with full on talking and listening but never thinking.Writer narrates tiger's life experience in a way that it's hard to separate him from average human being. How he acts to pose his superiority on others in jungle, how he shows enmity against those he can't catch or kill.This story made me care about the main character.. the tiger and I was wondering since the start that how it would end or what would happen to the tiger, eventually. Well, what you get in the end is just heart warming. Message well received Writer Sir.

Why our society needs a Tiger? It is necessary to get a tiger to keep every hate monger and devil at the bay for a better living. A tiger for Malgudi is an amalgamation of Spiritual allegory, psychology, the human-animal relationship, and a bit of humor. The story is one of a kind where Raja (the protagonist tiger) starts narrating his autobiography while laying in the prison zoo in his old age. Unlike other tigers, Raja possesses a soul, can think, analyze human behaviors, can adapt, and finally, he is intelligent. Raja's story is about his complete life cycle, how his life evolves from 'the lord of the jungle' to a spiritual, soulful, truth seeker tiger.The autobiography evolves in four phases. In the first stage, Raja narrates his jungle life, his youthful vigor, and pride, and how he becomes 'the lord of the jungle'. The second stage is a bit of happiness, grief, and a lot of loyalty. In this stage, he watches the tigress and his cubs get killed in front of his eyes, the pangs of separation from his family, trying to take revenge only to discover the human are real devils and not the jackal or Chimpanzee. This stage also delves upon his circus life, his loyalty towards his captain, and his filmy life. When the greed of his captain becomes Raja's worst enemy and greatest blessing. In the third stage he narrates his journey after killing his captain and fleeing from the movie set only to come across the Yogi; his master who takes Raja with him for his better life and a spiritual transformation. Stage four is about the evolution and counting days of his remaining life in the Zoo only to reunite with his master in the afterlife. Stage four is deeply based upon Raja's evolution from the transformed self to attain humane qualities.From the surface, it might feel like a philosophical allegory but researchers found it more of an Indian contemporary post-colonial allegory. The stages of Raja's autobiography can be similar to India's resistance to the British in form of Gandhi's non-violent resistance. Where Raja portrays the Indian, killing of his family denotes the British regime's atrocities, disciplined circus life resonates with British education and other impositions on the common mass only to take a higher ground by the British. Killing his captain and attaining spiritual and humane qualities circumscribed the Indian Independence and India's role in the post-colonial world. (Source - Google)A tiger for Malgudi is a riveting tale of the human-animal relationship, psychology, human greed, lust, the fame that too with spiritual guidance. Every village needs a tiger to instill fear; only to make a better living place for every living being, not to fall in the toes of fake money-launder gurus, not to kill a fellow living beings for any silly turn of event. Lastly, A tiger for Malgudi asks the readers in between pages,'will you leave your God's chariot to save yourself from a tiger or do you accept your killing as your God's blessing?'

What else to say .. Expressing story of a tiger as no one else can.Humerous depiction with a good ending.Good buy

A great story executed very well with wonderful words and simple style.. My wife loved the book and now she has become a fan of RK Narayan..

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An author just ingrained his blood and thoughts with both tiger and a seer..Just enthralling

Great. R k narayan is alawys my favourite

An unusual book where the tiger itself is the narrator of his own story

Book quite tatty v

A biography of a tiger.. a very heart warming story and a must read for anyone who loves wild life.

Die Sprache gefiel mir gut und ich konnte auch öfters über die komischen Einfälle von Narayan lachen. Ich war aber am Schluss des Buches so klug wie zuvor. Gute und leichte Unterhaltung.

Didn't know what to expect, it was a book for the U3A literature group. Have read RK Narayan before so knew his style. Unusual approach, and easy read. Difficult to get hold of from public sources. Was able to visualise much of it as I had lived in India and the language brought back terms I had heard used.

Enjoyed this book. I've read many of Narayan's works. Had to get past the glaring narrator gaff of how the tiger knows all kinds of information he's not present for. Beyond that very touching and thoughtful. As always my favourite aspect is the yogic philosophy of Raja's beloved master...wish there had been more. Even shed a tear at the end. Recommend it.