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R.K. Narayan
Birth date: October 10, 1906
Died: May 13, 2001
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Bloodorange
Bloodorange rated it 9 years ago
These stories feel universal; I am uncomfortably aware that this comment - from a white reader, on a non-white author's work - may smack of insensitivity to difference, but they feel universal the way greatest Russian literature does; they present human weaknesses and imperfection in a humorous, but...
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mybookjournal rated it 9 years ago
I make it a point to start my year by reading a book by an Indian author and i couldn’t have asked for a better book than ‘Waiting For The Mahatma’ by R.K. Narayan. I have always enjoyed his satiric writing. Set in the same place ‘Malgudi’, this book revolves around Sriram a young aimless boy, who i...
mybookjournal
mybookjournal rated it 9 years ago
I make it a point to start my year by reading a book by an Indian author and i couldn’t have asked for a better book than ‘Waiting For The Mahatma’ by R.K. Narayan. I have always enjoyed his satiric writing. Set in the same place ‘Malgudi’, this book revolves around Sriram a young aimless boy, who i...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 9 years ago
bookshelves: autumn-2015, published-1958, india, radio-4x, play-dramatisation, art-forms, amusing Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 08 to 09, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l36xyDescription: Raju's first stop after his release fro...
Optimistic and constructive books
Optimistic and constructive books rated it 9 years ago
I happened to pick up this book when I went to New Delhi for work. I didn't know about Indian mythology at all, because in Europe we read only Greek Mythology at school, but what I've always like about India is that in this country, the animals seem to have equal rights as Man. So, when I picked up ...
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