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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.
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]
Venkatarama Krishnaswamy Iyer CSI (15 June 1863 – 28 December 1911) was an Indian lawyer who served as a justice of the High Court of Madras and on the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras [1] [2] who was also known as a leader in the second generation of the Mylapore clique.
The author R Krishnaswamy Iyer has made an anecdotal reference in the foreword of Part-II, regarding the visit, the holy dip of the 35th pontiff in the point of confluence of these rivers, His visit to old Koti Mukteeswarar temple here, performance of His daily Sri Sarada Chandramouleeswara Puja in this nearby village and His benedictory talk ...
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.
Krishnaswamy Iyer was born in a Dravida Brahmin Alladi family [1] [2] [3] in 1883 in the small village of Pudur in Madras State (present day Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh). His father, Ekamra Sastry, was a priest. Krishnaswamy passed his matriculation examination in 1899 and joined the Madras Christian College to study history. He used his ...
Her father was S. Narayanaswami Iyer, the Principal of Maharaja's College. Her mother Chandrammal, a Devadasi, was only 11 years old when she implored Narayanaswami, a 30-year-old man who was to become her patron after her Devadasi dedication ceremony, to take her away from the life of a public woman. Narayanaswami was ostracised from his ...