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Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), [1] better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
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.
Or: "Sri Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan, on whom the Sahitya Akademi is conferring its highest honour of Fellowship, is a universally acknowledged Indian master of fiction writing in English." True there will be repetition of the "on whom ... Fellowship," but it is probably better than replacing it with ellipses, as that might be considered OR.
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman [1] (24 October 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. [2] He was best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily cartoon strip, You Said It in The Times of India , which started in 1951.
R. K. Narayan – Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (original name) R. K. Walker – Rosa Kershaw Walker Robert A. Heinlein – Robert Anson Heinlein
South Asian literature has a long history, having some of the oldest recorded pieces of literature, dating back to the later stages of the Bronze Age in India.Transmitted in Sanskrit, Rig veda is an ancient and sacred collection of Hindu texts originally composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes that were migrating from modern Afghanistan to northern India. [3]
The celebrated Indian English novelist R. K. Narayan's name at birth was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami, which was shortened at the behest of his writer friend Graham Greene. Rasipuram is a toponym, and Krishnaswami Ayyar is a patronym.
Rasipuram may also refer to these related to the city: Rasipuram (Lok Sabha constituency) Rasipuram (state assembly constituency) Rasipuram taluk, a subdistrict of Namakkal district Rasipuram block, a revenue block; Rasipuram railway station; Rasipuram Narayan or R. K. Narayan, Indian writer; Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman, Indian cartoonist