 " Whom next shall I meet in Malgudi ? That is the thought that comes to me when I close a novel of Mr Narayan 's . I do not wait for another novel . I wait to go out of my door into those loved and shabby streets and see with excitement and a certainty of pleasure a stranger approaching , past the bank , the cinema , the <unk> saloon , a stranger who will greet me I know with some unexpected and revealing phrase that will open a door on to yet another human existence . " 
