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.

Criticism can be both uncomfortable and revealing, often more about human ego than honest improvement. Here’s what R.K Narayan, the famous Indian novelist has to say about criticism.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

R K NARAYAN, who has died aged 94, was probably the most highly regarded of all Indian novelists writing in English. Beginning with Swami and Friends (1935), he wrote more than a dozen novels and ...

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 ...