Title: Rukmini Aunty and R K Narayan Fan Club 
Author: Sita Bhaskar
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Cost: Rs 399

A group of curious women lean from the window of Rukmini’s meditation room in yoga poses. They are peering at the dilapidated house on Vivekananda Road, opposite Rukmini and Sesha’s abode in Mysore. The house in question is where the beloved writer RK Narayan lived, and wrote his best works. His fan club comprising women from the neighbourhood have taken upon themselves to find a way to restore it. Sita Bhaskar’s new novel Rukmini Aunty and the RK Narayan Fan Club (Penguin India) takes readers into a small neighbourhood in Mysore, and explores questions of heritage and literary culture through humour and a sense of nostalgia for the twentieth century writer’s world.

RK Narayan