It is my pleasure to write few words on the person who one among the persons Inspired my life and who was in every academic year of my education. Atleast one lesson about him or his writings in books reminds me compassionate humanism.
Birth Date & Place: 10th October,1906 Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Full Name: Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami
His father is a school headmaster, he studied in his father's school. He was raised by his grandmother Parvati because of entailed frequent transfers to his father's job. His best friends were a peacock and a mischievous monkey. Parvati taught him arithmetic,mythology,classical Indian music and Sanskrit.
Narayan met and fell in love with Rajam in coimbatore.He became a reporter for a Madras based paper called THE JUSTICE after marriage.His famous story Swami and Friends was published in 1935.The Guide book is the most representative of Narayan's writing skills and elements, ambivalent in expression, coupled with a riddle-like conclusion. The book won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958.
In 1983 Narayan published his next novel, A tiger for Malgudi, Malgudi was not just a fictional town in India, but one teeming with characters, each with their own idiosyncrasies and attitudes, making the situation as familiar to the reader as if it were their own backyard.
Narayan's greatest achievement was making India accessible to the outside world through his literature. He gave his readers something to look forward to with Malgudi and its residents and is considered to be one of the best novelists India has ever produced.Narayan also served a term in the Rajya Sabha as a nominated member.A year before his death, in 2001, he was awarded India's second-highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan.
He died of heart failure at the age of 94 on May 12, 2001.
Google doodles 'Malgudi Days' on RK Narayan's 108th birth anniversary
Few words about Him and His Works
Full Name: Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami
Narayan met and fell in love with Rajam in coimbatore.He became a reporter for a Madras based paper called THE JUSTICE after marriage.His famous story Swami and Friends was published in 1935.The Guide book is the most representative of Narayan's writing skills and elements, ambivalent in expression, coupled with a riddle-like conclusion. The book won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958.
Narayan's greatest achievement was making India accessible to the outside world through his literature. He gave his readers something to look forward to with Malgudi and its residents and is considered to be one of the best novelists India has ever produced.Narayan also served a term in the Rajya Sabha as a nominated member.A year before his death, in 2001, he was awarded India's second-highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan.
He died of heart failure at the age of 94 on May 12, 2001.
Happy 108th birthday to RK Narayan
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