Birth Name : Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami
Date of birth : 10/10/1906
Place of birth : Madras, British India
Category : Writers
R.K. Narayan's full name 'Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami', was an Indian writer, best known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of 'Malgudi'. He is credited with bringing t... Read More
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Sarkar Fixes Weight of Classroom Satchels - Economic Times
Sarkar Fixes Weight of Classroom SatchelsEconomic TimesShakespeare's 'whining schoolboy…creeping like snail/Unwillingly to school', might soon have cause to whoop with delight and turn exuberant cartwheels — at least, if he went to an Indian school. Fearing that the burden of education is proving to be ... |
The 2018 bookstore - The Hindu
The 2018 bookstoreThe HinduThere's plenty of contemporary Indian writing, including Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai and Vikram Seth, but no R.K. Narayan. And therein lies the clue on how to compile our own lists — to have our memories jogged, to take the titles we ... |
The schoolbag and the burden of education - Times of India
The schoolbag and the burden of educationTimes of IndiaRight from author R K Narayan to scientist Prof Yash Pal, experts have time and again insisted on the need for lighter schoolbags. With the new directive by the Centre to rationalize the burden – making it a norm not to carry more than 10% of the child ... |
Review: The Town That Laughed by Manu Bhattathiri - Hindustan Times
Review: The Town That Laughed by Manu BhattathiriHindustan TimesRK Narayan's Malgudi Days springs to mind and Ramesh Sippy's 'Sholay'. Both classics, comforting in the worlds they open up. You can go to Ramgarh or Malgudi any time you like. Unless of course, the book is handed over to Chetan Bhagat to write or the ... |
Why letter-writing still holds relevance in this day and age - Hindustan Times
Why letter-writing still holds relevance in this day and ageHindustan TimesWe live in an age when technology drives most of what we do in our day-to-day lives. And blessed as we are with tech boons such as smartphones and instant messaging applications, the subtle art of writing letter may seem outdated. But when it comes to ... |
Getting a sense for Karnataka - Bangalore Mirror
Getting a sense for KarnatakaBangalore MirrorFour decades after its publication in 1977, RK Narayan's travelogue, The Emerald Route, still proves to be the best single book of introduction on Karnataka. Commissioned to write a book on Karnataka — at the time of the Emergency — by the state's ... |
Walking on Mysuru's streets no longer the joy it once was - Times of India
Walking on Mysuru's streets no longer the joy it once wasTimes of IndiaMysuru: One need look no farther than the novels and short stories of the acclaimed author RK Narayan to find lyrical vignettes describing the joy of walking along the streets of Mysuru, which in the writer's day, retained its anglicised name: Mysore ... |
From Roald Dahl to Enid Blyton, what our fave authors from our growing-up days remind us of - Telegraph India
From Roald Dahl to Enid Blyton, what our fave authors from our growing-up days remind us ofTelegraph IndiaReminds us of: Mythology. We're not kidding when we say that some of us who study English literature have actually passed exams based on the knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology that we gained from reading the Percy Jackson books! |
India: Essays by VS Naipaul: Review - Free Press Journal
India: Essays by VS Naipaul: ReviewFree Press JournalThere are so many perspectives that everyone can see a different shade to it. V S Naipaul has seen a sarcastic bright hue in the description of India. His India is completely different from R K Narayan's or Mulk Raj Anand's India. The Noble Prize ... |
World Television Day: Top five serials of the 80s which are pure gold - India TV
World Television Day: Top five serials of the 80s which are pure goldIndia TVBased on the novel by RK Narayan, the show was directed by Kannnada actor Shankar Nag. The show aired in 1986 and was an absolute hit among kids. We are still in love with the iconic background score by Carnatic musician L Vaidyanathan. |
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