Literary Articles

  Indianness and Narayan’s writings are almost synonymous. In fact, India with its landscape, culture, conventions  and customs becomes p...

The daily life of the Indians, the traditions of the land and indeed the superstitions and values of India gain a form in the remarkable n...

R. K. Narayan’s conception of humor is meticulously achieved in The Guide . We get a glimpse of the complexity of life in this novel throu...

The Guide is one of Narayan’s most interesting and popular works and is told in a series of flashbacks. In this novel Raju is the narrato...

The Guide is one of Narayan’s most interesting and popular works and is told in a series of flashbacks. In this novel Raju is the narrato...

Rosie is one of the main characters of the novel “The Guide” by R.K. Narayan. R.K. Narayan portrays the character Rosie as a typical Indi...

The central theme of the novel The Guide by R.K Narayan is the transformation of Raju from his role as a tour guide to that of a spiritua...

Narayan uses the interesting technique of a varied narrative perspective. The story shifts back and forth between first and third person na...

In his The Guide R.K. Narayan successfully uses gentle irony along with a humor. His interest in the Indian sensibility results in his ex...

The Guide is narrated through a series of the protagonist Raju’s flashbacks/ memory. R K Narayan, like another Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh,...