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The Guide is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works, the events of this novel take place in Malgudi, a fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India.
Based on R. K. Narayan's 1958 novel The Guide, the film narrates the story of Raju (Anand), a freelance tour guide and Rosie (Rehman), the repressed wife of a wealthy archaeologist. [3] A 120-minute U.S. version titled The Guide was written by Pearl S. Buck and directed and produced by Tad Danielewski.
R. K. Narayan was born in a Tamil Hindu family [4] on 10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India. [5] He was one of eight children; six sons and two daughters. Narayan was second among the sons; his younger brother Ramachandran later became an editor at Gemini Studios , and the youngest brother Laxman became a cartoonist.
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This is the title story of this collection of tales by R.K. Narayan. It concludes the collection with the story of a simple village in South India called Somal, where an aged storyteller named Nambi lived. Nambi seems to resemble R.K. Narayan, especially in relation to R.K. Narayan during his later career.
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My Dateless Diary is a collection of autobiographical essays by R. K. Narayan published in 1960. [1] The book was the output of a daily journal that he maintained during his visit to the United States on a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1956. [2] While on this visit, Narayan also completed The Guide, the writing of which is covered in this book. [3]