Exhausted, he arrived at the door of the camp where Rayan was standing with his wide-open glaring eyes and tightly closed lips. Write a story on it
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R. K. NARAYAN was born on October 10, 1906, in Madras,
South India, and educated there and at Maharaja’s College
in Mysore. His first novel, Swami and Friends (1935), and its
successor, The Bachelor of Arts (1937), are both set in the
fictional territory of Malgudi, of which John Updike wrote,
“Few writers since Dickens can match the effect of colorful
teeming that Narayan’s fictional city of Malgudi conveys; its
population is as sharply chiseled as a temple frieze, and as
endless, with always, one feels, more characters round the
corner.” Narayan wrote many more novels set in Malgudi,
including The English Teacher (1945), The Financial
Expert (1952), and The Guide (1958), which won him the
Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Letters)
Award, his country’s highest honor. His collections of short
fiction include A Horse and Two Goats, Malgudi Days, and
Under the Banyan Tree. Graham Greene, Narayan’s friend
and literary champion, said, “He has offered me a second
home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to
be Indian.” Narayan’s fiction earned him comparisons to the
work of writers including Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner,
O. Henry, and FlanneryO’Connor.Narayan also published travel books, volumes of essays,
the
memoir My Days, and the retold legends Gods,
Demons, and Others, The Ramayana,
and The
Mahabharata. In 1980 he was awarded the A. C. Benson
Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1981 he
was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. In 1989 he was made a member of the
Rajya Sabha, the nonelective House of Parliament in India.
R. K. Narayan died in Madras on May 13, 2001.
PANKAJ MISHRA is the author of The Romantics, winner of
the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First
Fiction, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, and
Tempations of the West: How to be Modern in India,
Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond . He is a frequent contributor to
the NewYork Times Book Review, the NewYork Reviewof
Books, and the Guardian