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 ...

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 stardom. 16 September, marks the 105th birth anniversary of the doyen ...

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.

I was in Ahmedabad last weekend, where, during a visit to Sabarmati Ashram, I picked up a copy of R.K. Narayan’s 1955 novel, Waiting for the Mahatma, from the bookshop on the premises. The afternoon ...

BANGALORE: Writers, actors and a theatre stalwart paid tributes to R K Narayan, the novelist who would have turned 108 on Friday, October 10. His fiction grows younger by the day as successive ...

BENGALURU: Life is about making right things and going on, once told by the famous Indian Novelist Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, people dearly call him R.K. Narayan. His stories are ...

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 ...

Arthur J Pais reveals little known facts about Dev Anand's film, Guide. The list of artists Dev Anand introduced or gave big breaks to in his movies includes Zeenat Aman (Hare Rama Hare Krishna, 1971) ...

Saved from demolition by the Karnataka government's decision to declare it a heritage building, the house that belonged to noted writer R.K. Narayan in Yadavagiri, Mysore, will be restored “at the ...

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 ...