![]() Not a single word is understood by either, yet they go on like long lost friends. ![]() The American speaks only English while Muni speaks chaste Tamil. The unlikely characters meet and an interesting conversation is soon in full swing. On one such typical day, an American tourist happens to run out of ‘gas’ near the statue. And so, penniless, dreaming of drumstick curry and other such delicacies, he grazes his goats each day – lazing in the shadows of the great Horse. Hunger seems to follow them about like shadows? because the shop-keeper’s terms are ‘strictly cash’. Muni, the local goat-herd and his family (wife and two goats) have obviously seen better day. ![]() An impressive statue of a Horse and Warrior stands on the outskirts of a sleepy village named Kritam, not too far from Malgudi.
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