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A. Semester – 4 (English) Indian Writing in English – 1 (CCE 8) CORE / Elective – 1 / Elective – 2 (2020-21) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n\nThe Guide-R. K. Narayan  \nIntroduction: R. K. Narayan, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist, is oneof the few Indian writers in English who have succeeded sensitively portraying the varied and colourful life of twentieth century India. He is considered to be one of the three best Indian authors writing in English; the other two are Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand. Narayan's fiction contains a unique blend of Indian mysticism and English form. His fictional world, Malgudi, isone of everyday concerns and common language set in southern India, which he successfully portrays through subtle prose and humour  \nLife and Works of R. K. Narayan: R.K. Narayan was born in 1906 in Madras (now Chennai) and had his early education there. He graduated from the Maharajah's College, Mysore, in 1933. He began as a teacher in a local high school but resigned after five days and chose writing as a career. He has written regularly for magazines and newspapers. His short stories used to be a regular feature in the Sunday Hindu. His first novel, Swami and Friends, appeared in 1935. This was followed by Bachelor of Arts (l937), The Dark Room (1939), The English Teacher (1945), An Astrologer's Day (1947), Mr. Sampath (1949), The Financial Expert (1952), Waiting for the Mahatma (1955), and The Guide (1956) . Among his later novels maybe mentioned Malgudi Days (1957), Lawley Road, Next Sunday, Dateless Diary (I960), The Man Eater of Malgudi (1961), Gods, Demons and Others (1964) and The Sweet Vendor (1967) . His latest isA Horse and Two Goats (1970) .  \nSeveral of these volumes have been published in England. His The Guide has been made into a play and presented both at Oxford and Cambridge: It was also selected for the Sahitya Academy Award in Literature for the year 1960. Narayan was invited by the Michigan State University asa Visiting Professor. He has also journeyed to the Philippines to write the biography of its President. He was awarded the honorary D. Lit. by the University of Leeds in 1967 and was honoured by our own Government with the title of ‘Padma Bushan' for his distinguished services to literature.  \nR. K. Narayan is a man of letters, pure and simple. He is a story-teller par excellence. He has touched a vast range of Indian life and thought, but political issues and social conflicts do not figure in his stories except as general background for the fortunes of his enjoyable characters.  \nHe has a keen eye for details and his awareness of the contemporary Indian situation is penetrating.  \nSignificance of the title: The Guide is a very appropriate title for R. K. Narayan’s saga about Railway Raju. The hero of the story plays four different roles in his career and in all of them, he functions as an interesting guide.  \nFirst Raju is interested in the passengers who alight at the Malgudi Railway Station where he has a bookstall. In his readiness to help others, finds himself attending to their various requirements. It is in a spirit of friendship that he finds for the new comer passengers, lodging and conveyance which will suit their pockets. Then it starts on him that this can as well be away of living. He gathers information from second-hand books coming into his stall and with this knowledge he entertains the tourists. He uses this newly gained information as his own original wisdom. For instance, if the tourist desires to see the source of the Sarayu, He will arrange for the ramshackle taxi of his friend Gaffer to take the tourist to the spot in the dense forest up the hill where the Sarayu starts as a drop. He emphasizes to his customer how only Gaffur’s taxi can negotiate the formidable mountain paths. After seeing the location of the source of the river, Raju waxes eloquent to the next batch of tourists about the awful beauty of the Sarayu at its source and makes it a ‘ must’ in their rou","cbCaij2kNlrZH16A","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaij2kNlrZH16A","pdf",275317,"English","# Introduction: R. K. Narayan\n# Life and Works of R. K. Narayan\n# Significance of the title\n## Raju as a helper at Malgudi Station\n## Raju as a tourist guide\n## Raju and Rosie’s love and guidance","[{\"question\":\"Who was R. K. Narayan and what is distinctive about his writing?\",\"answer\":\"He was a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist, known for sensitively portraying the colourful life of twentieth-century India. 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