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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.
Malgudi is located on the banks of the river Sarayu.In Swami and Friends, Swami, Mani and Rajam spend most of their evenings playing or chatting by the river.In The Guide, holy-man Raju fasts on the banks of the dry river Sarayu, praying for the rains to come.
A Writer's Nightmare is a collection of essays by R. K. Narayan published in 1988 by Penguin Books. [1] The essays included in the book are about topics as diverse as the caste system, love, Nobel Prize winners and monkeys; the book provides readers a unique view of Indian life. [2]
The Raju caste, which A. Satyanarayana calls the "locally dominant landed gentry", claims Kshatriya status in the varna system despite there being "no real Kshatriya varna" in the Andhra region. [1] [a] Raju is a Telugu language variant of the Sanskrit title Raja, a term for a monarch or princely ruler. Cynthia Talbot describes the term as being:
Not orthodox himself, Raman neither sports a tuft like others from his caste nor has inhibitions in eating meat if necessary. He looks down on superstitions and old-fashioned notions of religion and caste and spends his time reading ancient copies of books on science and history.
The stories range from the humorous to the serious and all are filled with Narayan's acute observations of human nature. The concluding story, Under the Banyan Tree , is about a village story-teller who concludes his career by taking a vow of silence for the rest of his life, realizing that a story-teller must have the sense to know when to ...
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]