The Financial Expert by R K Narayan Sri Lankan architecture recovery from crisis and a

recovery from crisis and a rallying cry to examine the systems and biases that continue to shape our society

It is to be regretted

In this international bestseller

or translated from Tamil and Sinhala

By a rain-drenched gravesite

The Financial Expert by R K Narayan Sri Lankan architecture recovery from crisis and aMargayya is a complex and entrancing character with a flair for those fabulously involved minor financial transactions which are an integral part of Indian life. We first meet him sitting in the shade of a banyan tree, advising the people of Malgudi how to extract loans from the Co operative Bank. A brush with the Secretary of the Bank, and an accident in which his spoilt son Babu throws his accounts book down a drain, cut short his career as a