Blogs about: Rk Narayan
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If the Mahatma could rethink his xenophobia…
Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph, Calcutta: R.K. Narayan did not write in Kannada, but his works sensitively portray the people, culture and landscapes of the state of Karnataka. His 1938 book, Mysor… more →
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train dreams
wrote 4 months ago: Months after reading Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, I found myself reaching for it again, to anchor m … more →
What I am reading right now
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wrote 4 months ago: Earlier this week, when I tweeted that I intend to spend my holiday break essentially reading books … more →
Writing and not...
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wrote 6 months ago: Over the past few days I ended up reading Neil Gaiman’s ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ throug … more →
RK Narayan reads (it's his birthday, today, too)
wrote 7 months ago: Image sourced from here … more →
Writers, October: RK Narayan
wrote 7 months ago: RK Narayan on the naming of Malgudi, from interviews with N Ram and Susan Ram, Frontline: I had an i … more →
If the Mahatma could rethink his xenophobia...
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wrote 7 months ago: Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph, Calcutta: R.K. Narayan did not write in Kannada, but his works se … more →
Writing in English: RK Narayan’s unconscionable sin
wrote 7 months ago: “Narayan wakes in me a spring of gratitude,” Graham Greene wrote of his literary protege, Rasipuram … more →
How can Bhyrappa & Co be same as Yedi & Co?
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wrote 7 months ago: SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Parochial thoughts. Narrow-minded pettiness. Divisive ideas that spell acrim … more →
What Kannada racists can learn from a Raja-Rishi
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wrote 7 months ago: The silhouette of Jayachamaraja Wodeyar, the 25th and last maharaja of Mysore—a “raja-ri … more →
4 reasons why R.K. Narayan deserves a memorial
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wrote 7 months ago: 15, Vivekananda Road, Yadavagiri, Mysore 570020: the home R.K. Narayan built in 1952 and lived in fo … more →
How it all began...
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wrote 10 months ago: I was on my summer break. I was 14, in grade 9. I still swell up (if that is possible anymore:-P) in … more →
R.K. Narayan: A writer who portrayed The true Soul of South India
wrote 11 months ago: I am not a great critic, I am not a critic at all for that matter of fact, but I have always felt a … more →
Summer in the City: How my new part-time job (and R.K. Narayan) made me love Scotland (and want to write about it) again
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been back in Scotland for three weeks now, and I’ve spent quite a large portion of that time fe … more →
When R.K. Narayan went to see a 'blue' film
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wrote 1 year ago: Khushwant Singh in the Hindustan Times: “Once while attending a writers conference at Hawaii t … more →
Sunny, Vishy, Immy, ITC and namma Meera
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wrote 1 year ago: NARENDRA K. writes: I was all of 18 years and Meera was 20. Life had meandered on amidst the vicissi … more →
Stuck-at-home generation; How India became America; Pass the books, hold the oil; Japan's rubble economy; Many 'criminals' among new India MLAs
wrote 1 year ago: 1 Stuck-at-home generation (The New York Times) Sometime in the past 30 years, someone has hit the b … more →
Review :India -A Wounded Civilisation
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wrote 1 year ago: V.S Naipaul’s second book much acclaimed, but rarely understood India Trilogy -India : A Woun … more →
N. RAM: caustic, opinionated, humane & sensitive
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wrote 1 year ago: Thursday, 19 January 2012, is a red-letter day in The Hindu calendar. After an eight-year tenure as … more →
A home that housed four generations of genius
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wrote 1 year ago: For a decade after his demise, R.K. Narayan‘s lovingly built residence in Mysore lay unloved a … more →
