It is well over a decade since R.K. Narayan died and no memorial worthy of the legend was either planned or executed all these years. The people of Mysore woke up only when his house in Yadavagiri had started being demolished last September. What followed was an uproar of sorts and the government immediately stepped in and promised to buy the house at market price and turn it into a memorial. Narayan put Mysore on the world literary map through his fictional representation of Malgudi. However, despite demands from some quarters, not even a street or a circle in Mysore was named after the creator of Malgudi. Only belatedly, a train was named Malgudi Express.