R.K. Narayan
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For centuries, Indians have held Rama to be the perfect man: unfailingly noble, utterly poised, fearless and strong, wise, compassionate and free from anger, a just ruler and an implacable foe of all wrongdoers. Countless others worship Rama as an avatar, a human incarnation of Lord Vishnu born to vanquish the forces of evil and establish a kingdom of perfect justice and harmony upon the earth. The Ramayana, one of lndia's greatest epics, lovingly unfolds the ...
R.K. Narayan’s delightfully funny tales of a harum-scarum schoolboy, Swami, have regaled both young and old for years. Swami’s days are full of creating a ruckus in the classroom, dreams of playing tricks on his grandmother or stoning the school windows, inspired by a swadeshi demonstration. When he puts together a cricket team for the MCC (Malgudi Cricket Club) and challenges the Young Men’s Union to a match, things go horribly, horribly wrong, ...
Thus begins R.K. Narayan's classic chronicle of the adventures of a boy named Swami, and his friends Rajam and Mani, in a sleepy and picturesque South Indian town called Malgudi. Swami's days are full of action-when he is not creating a ruckus in the classroom or preparing in his inimitable way for exams, he's trying to acquire a hoop from the coachman's son to run down the Malgudi streets, playing tricks on his grandmother, or stoning the school ...
The great Indian epic The Mahabharata is at least 3,500 years old. In its original in the Sanskrit language it runs to one hundred thousand stanzas in verse-by far the longest of the world's epics. Also, together with The Ramayana it embodies the very essence of Indian cultural and religious heritage, laying down values of individual life and society which have shaped the texture of Indian life. The Mahabharata fairly bursts with an astonishing treasure of ...
After the stupendous success of Malgudi Schooldays, R.K. Narayan's chronicle of the escapades of Swami and his friends, come Malgudi Adventures, which contains more delightful stories of children's adventures in the magical South Indian small town of Malgudi. There are the memorable stories of Babu, who, in trying to set up the lights for his sisters' Navaratri display, manages to plunge the entire household into darkness; of a snake charmer boy who grows up with ...
The third in the series of Penguin India’s omnibus editions of R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi novels, The Magic of Malgudi contains Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The Vendor of Sweets. It is sure to delight first-time readers of Narayan as well as his devoted fans.
Memories of Malgudi brings together five unforgettable novels from the Narayan corpus. The Dark Room, the first novel in this collection, is the story of the marital discord between Savitri, a traditional Hindu wife, and Ramani, her husband. The English Teacher is about another young couple: Krishna and his wife, Susila. Their world is full of love and laughter, but when Susila passes away, Krishna must deal with the tragic blow and find a reason to go on living. ...
In a writing career spanning over half a century, R.K. Narayan created the imagined landscape of a town called Malgudi, located somewhere in South India. Malgudi is a town just like any other, its inhabitants like old familiars one might meet round the corner of any ordinary street. With deft strokes of his pen, Narayan is able to flesh out characters and situations that entertain us on the first reading and linger in our memory for years afterwards. The World of ...
When R.K. Narayan passed away last year at the age of ninety-four, tributes poured in from fans and admirers, celebrating the art of this master storyteller who has often been described as India's greatest English language writer. Narayan is better known for his novels set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi, but his essays are as delightful and enchanting as any of his novels. This collection begins with the short essays which Narayan wrote as a weekly ...
The best of a lifetime’s work—novels, short stories, essays, travel pieces and short non-fiction—of one of the world’s finest writers comes together in Malgudi Landscapes. Skilfully edited and introduced by S. Krishnan, this selection brings Malgudi, the enchanting little South Indian town that R.K. Narayan created, to glorious and colourful life.
My days is the only memoir from R K Narayan, one of the twentieth century's most important writers in the English language. In the wry and truthful style that has made him famous, R K Narayan shares his life story, beginning in his grand mother's garden in Madras with a ferocious pet peacock. As a young boy with no interest in school he trains grasshoppers and scouts and then, against the advice of all, especially his commanding headmaster father, the ...
Hardcover edition of this book is currently out of print. However, its paperback edition is now also available.In this special omnibus edition, R K Narayan, India's finest living English language novelist, retells the two great Indian epics The Ramayana and The Mahabharata as well as other well-known incidents from Hindu mythology and folklore. Retaining the spirit of the originals, R K Narayan, the consummate storyteller, has given us classic works from a ...
Here is R.K. Narayan's delightful selection of stories from lndia's vast treasure-house of myths and legends handed down through the ages. Drawing his stories from The Ramayana, The Mahabharata and other great Indian epics, Narayan tells the tales as they might be recounted by the wise village storyteller. In the legends, where all things are possible, one thousand years seem only a second, and good ultimately triumphs over evil. The Devi, who is the ...