Dr. Sujata Asst. Prof. in English, Department of Humanities and Management, FET, MRIU, Faridabad (Haryana), India Abstract: The paper probes the role of spiritual in communicating Narayan’s overall life vision. Narayan is a mature artist who has his feet firmly rooted in his social and cultural ethos. His chief protagonists, though leading the most ordinary…
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R.K.Narayan: The Grand Old Man of Indian Fiction
Showkat Hussain Dar (ex-student, Central University of Kashmir) Country: India(Jammu And Kashmir) This is an axiomatic fact that the Indian fiction in English is the most popular of all forms and has gone ‘transnational’ with Indian diasporic living in the West and writing beyond nationality. The Big Three phrase coined by William Walsh comprises of…
The Existentialism in R.K. Narayan’s The Guide
Dr. Sunita Rani Assistant Professor(Ad-hoc) Dayanand P.G. College, Hisar, Haryana( India) Published in 1958, The Guide is the most acclaimed novel of R. K. Narayan that won him not only immense popularity but also the Sahitya Academy Award for 1960. Of all the Indian novelists writing in English, Narayan alone has the distinction of being…
Use of Indian Language in The Selected Novels of R.K. Narayan
K. Eswar Reddy Assistant Professor of English K.S.R.M. College of Engineering Kadapa-516003, YSR Dist., Andhra Pradesh, India & S.K.A. Rahiman School Assistant (English) Z.P. Boys High School, KHAJIPET, YSR Dist., Andhra Pradesh, India INTRODUCTION RK Narayan, an Indian writer in English, passed away a few years ago (1906-2001). He wrote simple tales and novels that…
Hiding in the Light: R. K. Narayan as a Feminist Novelist
Rajendra Kumar Dash, Asst. Professor, Department of English, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. & Namita Panda, Asst. Professor, Department of English, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. The fictions of R.K. Narayan (1907-2001), especially his novels, can be regarded as more or less a socio-historical chronicle of India…
SOUL-BODY CONCEPT IN THE SELECTED NOVELS OF R.K.NARAYAN
Jothilakshmi.R & Dr.G.Meenakshi Sundaram Department of English CSI College of Engineering Ketti Post Ketti – 643 215 The Nilgirs District Tamil Nadu, India R.K. Narayan has a very strong background firmly fixed on the Vedic injunction. Narayan never fails to extol the Vedic perspectives in his novels. How he impregnates the essential concepts of Vedic…