"This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . .

The man of Malgudi may have been born and raised in Madras, but it’s Mysore, his adoptive city, that wants to memorialise him. CHENNAI: The man of Malgudi may have been born and raised in Madras, but ...

Friday's Google doodle on R K Narayan's 108th Birthday. R K Narayan, each time you hear the name of this Indian novelist, the mind takes a trip down the memory lane to the fictitious south Indian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. R K Narayan's short story ‘Selvi’ is inspired by aspects of M S Subbulakshmi’s life that lay behind the glist and glamour of her ...

BANGALORE: Writers, actors and a theatre stalwart paid tributes to R K Narayan, the novelist who would have turned 108 on Friday, October 10. His fiction grows younger by the day as successive ...

“The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees ...

R.K. Narayan is one of India’s most prolific writers, honoured with a Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan award. He is famously known for writing ‘Malgudi Days’. In 1933, Narayan met a 15-year-old girl ...

When R. K. Narayan died, in the spring of 2001 at the age of ninety-four, his legacy seemed assured. Over seven decades of literary activity, he had produced fourteen novels, countless essays, and ...

1. In R. K Narayan’s name, what do the initials R K stand for? 2. During his childhood, Narayan had two unusual animal friends. Name them. 3. This critically acclaimed novel was adapted into a Hindi ...