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terabaap
May 12th, 2001, 04:44 PM
CHENNAI: R K Narayan, the renowned Indian novelist of international repute, died in a private hospital on Sunday morning at 3.05 am following cardio-respiratory failure, according to hospital sources here.
kingpisser
May 12th, 2001, 05:03 PM
God bless him, and thanks for Malgudi Days.

Peace
SimpleHuman
May 12th, 2001, 10:09 PM
Sad news!

I think India will remember him always! Malgoodi Days no doubt was his best work!
Indian
May 13th, 2001, 06:23 PM
do you guys know that ..the movie 'GUIDE' devanand starrer , story is a novel of R.K.Narayan.

I can never forget his beautifull works like malgudi days, swami and his friends
He is a true legend !
Xandu
May 13th, 2001, 08:33 PM
my condolences to the great soul
Xandu
May 13th, 2001, 08:34 PM
did you know that the fictitious name Malgudi was something he pulled out of the names of two places in Bangalore.
sun
May 13th, 2001, 11:19 PM
Today morning only the BBC newssite spoke about it.
All our so called national news sites are just harping about election in TN and WB, and all other daily miscellany.

R.K Narayan was the greatest 'Storyteller' of our times - may his soul rest in peace.

Sun
kingpisser
May 14th, 2001, 08:36 AM
Guys,

I believe that Malgudi as in R.K. Narayan's 'Malgudi Days' is a real place, not a fictional one as mentioned a couple of posts back.

I was reading the year-end edition of Outlook a couple of weeks ago, and they had this great series on mythical places in India which actually exist in real life... eg., Rampur, Jhumri Talaiya, and of course, Malgudi. Please read this excellent issue and know about all these culturally significant towns.

Peace,

Kingpisser
Big-G
May 14th, 2001, 08:47 AM
May the great man's soul rest in peace.

Loved his work.
kingpisser
May 14th, 2001, 08:57 AM
Guys,

Check out http://www.outlookindia.com , and go to the back issues section, and the earliest January section, they have the feature I was talking earlier about, in an online version. One of the best articles I have seen in an Indian magazine,in fact any magazine, and a 10/10.

READ IT !!

Peace.
echarcha
May 14th, 2001, 10:21 AM
I really like some of our jewels like Acahrya Atre, P.L. Deshpande, R.K. Narayan and many others.

Well, thei work will always live on and continue to enthrall generations to come... i.e if people still prefer to read! whether on the internet or plain old paper books!