Three of Naipaul's stories written before The Mystic Masseur feature Ganesh Pundit to varying degrees. He appears in "Man-Man" of Miguel Street (1959) as a person who has a relation to God that the title character imitates, but it is merely a passing reference of less than a paragraph. In "How I Left Miguel Street," the last story in the collection, the narrator's mother bribes Ganesh, now a popular politician, to give her son a scholarship to study in London. The story depicts Ganesh in a comic crying contest between the narrator's mother and Ganesh over the size of the bribe. "My Aunt's Gold Teeth," published in A Flag on the Island (1967), shows an ineffective younger Ganesh who hastens the death of one of his.....
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