Question

In the story “Old Man of the Temple” by R. K. Narayan, what experience does the narrator have in the Taxi on his way to Kumbum?

Answer 1

Supernatural experience as the old man’s spirit possessed his driver.  He insists he is still alive but in the end he realizes that he is dead.  Before the encounter there were stories of someone knocking at the temple door.  After that, the knocking stop.