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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.
The gallery showing Laxman's life has a portion that depicts his childhood spent with his elder brother, R. K. Narayan, the creator of Malgudi Days, and a prominent figure of modern Indian English writing. Laxman had in fact begun his career by illustrating Narayan's books.
It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. Starting with his first novel, Swami and Friends, all but one of his fifteen novels and most of his short stories take place here. Malgudi was a portmanteau of two Bengaluru localities - Malleshwara and Basavana Gudi. Narayan has successfully portrayed Malgudi as a microcosm of India.
R. K. Laxman was born in Mysore in 1921 in a Tamil [citation needed] Hindu family. [5] [6] His father was a headmaster and Laxman was the youngest of eight children: six sons and two daughters.
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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]
The English Teacher is a 1945 novel written by R. K. Narayan.It is a part of a series of novels and collections of short stories set in "Malgudi". The English Teacher was preceded by Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and Malgudi Days, (1943) and followed by Mr. Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi.