Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami, popularly known as R K Narayan, who lived a life full of accolades, took a rest on this day in 2001. The Indian writer, better known for ‘Malgudi Days’, awed ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Indian writer R. K. Narayan said that in India 'the writer has only to look out of the window to pick ...

Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories having 19 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. The book ...

I was in Ahmedabad last weekend, where, during a visit to Sabarmati Ashram, I picked up a copy of R.K. Narayan’s 1955 novel, Waiting for the Mahatma, from the bookshop on the premises. The afternoon ...

A neighbourhood’s quest to save R.K. Narayan’s former home blends fiction, non-fiction, and Mysuru’s rich literary history. Its characters form a modern conglomeration of Malgudi’s finest, navigating ...

As world remembers the Renowned author, R. K. Narayan on his death anniversary, May 13, let's recall about his famous book collection and Life & Career. Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories ...

Narayan’s Malgudi is built through language that quietly reproduces caste hierarchies rather than naming them. A forgotten episode in Swami and Friends reveals how everyday speech enables social ...

R.K Narayan’s study in his now restored home in Mysuru. Courtesy: Museums of India The statement provides a perfect frame to read Bhaskar’s work, a fictional revisiting of the controversies over the ...