| He is one of India’s greatest writers, whose stories are simple, warm, and very close to everyday life, human emotions, and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RK Narayan is the master of nostalgia. It is hard to come out of his novels without feeling an intense longing for the small-town life and its slow, predictable rhythms. Malgudi, his fictitious town, ...

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 ...