Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan, India’s much-loved storyteller whose spare, wry English-language novels and short stories gave the world insight into the richness and depth of life and literature in ...

R.K. Narayan, the literary chronicler of small-town life in South India and one of the first Indians writing in English to achieve international acclaim, died yesterday in Madras, India. He was 94.

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 ...

LIKE many young writers, R.K. Narayan found it difficult at first to get his work published. In 1934, after his novel “Swami and Friends” had been rejected by numerous publishers, he sent the ...

A group of curious women lean from the window of Rukmini’s meditation room in yoga poses. They are peering at the dilapidated house on Vivekananda Road, opposite Rukmini and Sesha’s abode in Mysore.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information MFS publishes theoretically engaged and historically informed articles on modernist and contemporary fiction. The journal's ...

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of R.K. Narayan’s birth, here is one way I propose that you read his Malgudi Days: one story per day for 32 consecutive days, by the end of which you will have ...