Manil Suri’s new memoir, A Room in Bombay, describes his coming of age in a single room that he shared with his parents ...

"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? . . .

William Faulkner had his Yoknapatawpha County. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has his Macondo. These two imagined communities have a sister village in south India — a place called Malgudi. In that village, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A simple dining hall at R K Narayan’s house, now a museum. DH Photos/T R Sathish Kumar RK Narayan’s house, in Vivekananda Road, Yadavagiri, Mysuru. DH Photos/T R Sathish Kumar The family house of R K ...

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 ...

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 ...