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The Indian Epics Retold collects three of R. K. Narayan’s best narratives on Hindu tradition and culture. The Ramayana and The Mahabharata are an intrinsic part of our legacy. Narayan’s Ramayan is based on the Tamil version of the verse by the poet Kamban. Narayan’s love for Rama’s character and his admiration for Kamban’s beautiful poetry is conveyed through this work. For The Mahabharata and for Gods, Demons and Others, Narayan referred to the original Sanskrit version of Mahabharata and other puranas. The stories follow the original text as closely as possible and make for a wonderful read for the young and old.
Imprint: India Penguin Modern Classics
Published: Feb/2023
ISBN: 9780670098194
Length : 600 Pages
MRP : ₹699.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: India Penguin Modern Classics
Published: Feb/2023
ISBN:
Length : 600 Pages
MRP : ₹699.00
The Indian Epics Retold collects three of R. K. Narayan’s best narratives on Hindu tradition and culture. The Ramayana and The Mahabharata are an intrinsic part of our legacy. Narayan’s Ramayan is based on the Tamil version of the verse by the poet Kamban. Narayan’s love for Rama’s character and his admiration for Kamban’s beautiful poetry is conveyed through this work. For The Mahabharata and for Gods, Demons and Others, Narayan referred to the original Sanskrit version of Mahabharata and other puranas. The stories follow the original text as closely as possible and make for a wonderful read for the young and old.
R.K. Narayan was born in Madras in 1906 and educated there and at Maharajah’s College in Mysore.
His first novel Swami and Friends (1935) was set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi. Narayan’s other novels are The Bachelor of Arts (1937), The Dark Room (1938), The English Teacher (1945), Mr Sampath (1949), The Financial Expert (1952), Waiting for the Mahatma (1955), the Sahitya Akademi award-winning The Guide (1958), The Man-eater of Malgudi (1962), The Vendor of Sweets (1967), The Painter of Signs (1976), A Tiger for Malgudi (1983), Talkative Man (1986) and The World of Nagaraj (1990).
Besides six collections of short stories (A Horse and Two Goats, An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories, Lawley Road, Malgudi Days, Grandmother’s Tale and Under the Banyan Tree), Narayan published two travel books (My Dateless Diary and The Emerald Route), five collections of essays (Next Sunday, Reluctant Guru, A Writer’s Nightmare, A Story-teller’s World and Salt and Sawdust), translations of Indian epics and myths (The Ramayana, The Mahabharata and Gods, Demons, and Others, published together as The Indian Epics Retold), and a memoir, My Days. A Town Called Malgudi, The World of Malgudi, The Magic of Malgudi and Memories of Malgudi, collections of Narayan’s fiction, Malgudi Landscapes, a selection of his best writings, and The Writerly Life, a volume of his selected non- fiction, are available from Penguin Books. Malgudi Schooldays, a book for children, is available in Puffin.
In 1980, R.K. Narayan was awarded the A.C. Benson medal by the Royal Society of Literature and was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1989, he was made a member of the Rajya Sabha. In 2000, the Government of India conferred on him the Padma Vibhushan. R.K. Narayan died in May 2001.