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RK Narayan

  • Sunday book pick: RK Narayan’s autobiographical novel ‘The English Teacher’ mourns his wife’s death

    Sunday book pick: RK Narayan’s autobiographical novel ‘The English Teacher’ mourns his wife’s death

    Sayari Debnath
    · Dec 14, 2025 · 01:30 pm
  • Fiction: The old house near Rukmini Aunty’s was once RK Narayan’s. And she’ll do anything to save it

    Fiction: The old house near Rukmini Aunty’s was once RK Narayan’s. And she’ll do anything to save it

    Sita Bhaskar
    · Dec 12, 2025 · 05:30 pm
  • How RK Narayan, a young graduate rejected by editors, took a leap of faith to become a writer

    How RK Narayan, a young graduate rejected by editors, took a leap of faith to become a writer

    Indradeep Bhattacharyya
    · Oct 06, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • How RK Narayan employed food imagery to make his books a delicious read

    How RK Narayan employed food imagery to make his books a delicious read

    Zac O’Yeah
    · Jun 13, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie’s books among BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’

    Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie’s books among BBC’s 100 ‘novels that shaped our world’

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 06, 2019 · 09:31 pm
  • ‘The Guide’ in English: The story of Dev Anand’s abortive attempt to storm Hollywood

    ‘The Guide’ in English: The story of Dev Anand’s abortive attempt to storm Hollywood

    Nandini Ramnath
    · Feb 03, 2019 · 07:45 am
  • Where is RK Narayan’s Malgudi? It depends on whom you are asking

    Where is RK Narayan’s Malgudi? It depends on whom you are asking

    Archana Nathan
    · Jun 05, 2017 · 01:30 pm
  • The RK Narayan museum is sparse on exhibits, and almost a Narayanesque tragicomedy

    The RK Narayan museum is sparse on exhibits, and almost a Narayanesque tragicomedy

    Hema Ramaprasad
    · Aug 11, 2016 · 08:30 am