Hungry kya?

Jerry Rao's tribute to R K Narayan is not to be read on an empty stomach, as the Babu, now rummaging for the phone number of the nearest Sagar/ Udipi, has just discovered.
"The idea of deliberately restricting one’s scale of operations, but achieving exquisite balance, irony and brilliance has never left me since then. Narayan is the ultimate veena-playing vegetarian. He does not pretend to have an orchestra with hundreds of violins, harps, cellos and horns. He does not pretend to a wide range of sauces and meats. But within his self-imposed limits of a quietly comical Malgudi he plays an exquisite raga, concocts a delectable rasam!"