<P> Malgudi has a small railway station which in many episodes, is central to the storyline. The main hospital of Malgudi is Malgudi Medical Centre (MMC). The statue of Sir Fredrick, seated on a horse, forms another major landmark . Another important place is The Boardless, a small restaurant without any board . Boardless is a centre of discussion for current events in Malgudi . </P> <P> Mempi forest is on the other side of Sarayu . It houses many hills and caves . Animals to be found there include tigers, members of the deer family, langurs and water buffalos . </P> <P> While describing how he conceptualised Malgudi, Narayan says, </P> <P> "Malgudi was an earth - shaking discovery for me, because I had no mind for facts and things like that, which would be necessary in writing about Malgudi or any real place . I first pictured not my town but just the railway station, which was a small platform with a banyan tree, a station master, and two trains a day, one coming and one going . On Vijayadasami I sat down and wrote the first sentence about my town: The train had just arrived in Malgudi Station ." </P>

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