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.

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 ...

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami, popularly known as R K Narayan, who lived a life full of accolades, took a rest on this day in 2001. The Indian writer, better known for ‘Malgudi Days’, awed ...

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.

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 ...

If you grew up as a bookworm, somewhere in the 90s, in India, you are sure to have either read, or heard of R K Narayan. Amongst all the books he has written, one of the most well-known is Malgudi ...

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 ...