by reciprocal arrangement with Star of Mysore

Mysore, June 28: Governor T.N. Chaturvedi will write to the Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav to name one of the trains running between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu as Malgudi Express, in memory of R.K. Narayan, whose short stories mention the name of an imaginary place Malgudi, during his birth centenary this year.

He assured the delegation of journalists and intellectuals, who met him yesterday at Raj Bhavan, that he would write a letter to the Railway Minister 'tomorrow itself.'

Chaturvedi, himself an intellectual and voracious reader, spent nearly an hour with the delegation discussing about R.K. Narayan's contributions to Mysore in particular and India in general through his literary works.

Chaturvedi observed that Narayan could be a major tourist attraction in Mysore like the writer James Joyce whose house in Dublin had been preserved as a museum.

The Governor enquired about the present status of the house in Yadavagiri where Narayan lived to explore the possibilities of preserving it as a Museum.

Chaturvedi assured the delegation that he would take up the proposals made in their memorandum with the State Government.