 Narayan 's greatest achievement was making India accessible to the outside world through his literature . He is regarded as one of the three leading English language Indian fiction writers , along with Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand . He gave his readers something to look forward to with Malgudi and its residents and is considered to be one of the best novelists India has ever produced . He brought small @-@ town India to his audience in a manner that was both believable and experiential . Malgudi was not just a fictional town in India , but one teeming with characters , each with their own idiosyncrasies and attitudes , making the situation as familiar to the reader as if it were their own backyard . In 2014 , Google commemorated Narayan 's 108th birthday by featuring a doodle showing him behind a copy of Malgudi Days . 
