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Ruskin
Bond
Ruskin Bond
was a long-time resident of Landour and Mussoorie (in the
Himalaya mountains in India), well-known for his poetry, fiction,
and weekly English-language columns in leading Indian newspapers.
Some of his popular works include
Book
Title:
Cherry
Tree
Amazon
Review:"I
loved this book! The passage of time passing and a young girl
growing into a young woman is mirrored in the growth of her
cherry tree, which she planted as from a pit when she was
6. ..."
Some
of the popular books by Ruskin Bond include :
A
complete list of books by Ruskin Bond from Amazon.Com
R
K Narayan
R.
K. Narayan was born in Madras in 1906 and educated there and
at Maharajah's College in Mysore. He has lived in India ever
since, apart from his travels. Most of his work, starting
from his first novel Swami and friends (1935) is set in the
fictional town of Malgudi which at the same time captures
everything Indian while having a unique identity of its own.
After having read only a few of his books it is difficult
to shake off the feeling that you have vicariously lived in
this town. Malgudi is perhaps the single most endearing "character"
R. K. Narayan has ever created.
He has published numerous novels, five collections of short
stories (A Horse and Two Goats, An Astrologer's Day, Lawley
Road, Malgudi Days, and The Grandmother's Tale), two travel
books (My Dateless Diary and The Emerald Route), four collections
of essays (Next Sunday, Reluctant Guru, A Writer's Nightmare,
and A Story-Teller's World), a memoir (My Days), and some
translations of Indian epics and myths (The Ramayana, The
Mahabharata, and Gods, Demons and Others).
In 1980, R. K. Narayan was awarded the A.C. Benson award 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 (the
non-elective House of Parliament in India). He received the
Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide (1958).
R. K. Narayan's full name is Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar
Naranayanaswami. In his early years he signed his name as
R. K. Narayanaswami, but apparently at the time of the publication
of Swami and Friends, he shortened it to R. K. Narayan on
Graham Greene's suggestion.
R.
K. Narayan's Published Works include:
1935: Swami
and friends
1937: Bachelor
of Arts
1938: The Dark Room
1939: Mysore
1945: The English Teacher
1947: An Astrologer's Day, and other stories
1949: Mr. Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi
1952: The Financial Expert
1953: Grateful to Life and Death
1955: Waiting for the Mahatma
1956: Lawley Road, and other stories
1958: The
Guide
1960: Next Sunday : sketches and essays
1961: The Man-Eater of Malgudi
1964: My Dateless Diary: An American Journey
1965: Gods, Demons, and others
1967: The Vendor of Sweets
1970: A Horse and two Goats, stories
1972: The Ramayana; a shortened modern prose version
1974: My Days
1974: Reluctant Guru
1976: The
Painter of Signs
1978: The Mahabharata: a shortened modern prose version
1980: The Emerald Route
1982: Malgudi
Days
1983: A Tiger for Malgudi
1985: Under
the Banyan Tree and other stories
1986: Talkative Man
1988: A Writer's Nightmare : selected essays
1989: A Story-Teller's World: Stories, Essays, Sketches
1990: The World of Nagaraj
1992: Malgudi Landscapes: the best of R.K. Narayan
1993: The Grandmother's Tale: three novellas
1993: Salt & sawdust : stories and table talk
Book
Title: The
Guide: A novel
Amazon
Review:"Marvellously
written book. Winner of the highest literary award in India,
the Sahitya
Kala Academy Award, this book makes fascinating reading. Among
the few books that I managed to finish on an overnight train
journey without being able to put down. I am sure it would
be a book that would be reread by all those who have read
it once. Charecterisations that Narayan weaves for Rosy and
Raju are just brilliant. The high point of the book is I think
the transformation of Raju, unaware to himself, into a sort
of hermit from the guide at the railway station that he used
to be.This has come off so beautifully in the book. Quite
worth putting your money into. The book was also made into
a highly successful movie by the same name staring Dev Anand.
This movie,many may not be aware, was also made in English
and had its screenplay written by oscar winning screen writer
Pearl Buck. "
Khushwant
Singh
Khushwant
Singh is perhaps India's best known journalist and critic
of life, literature, sex and politics. His novel Train to
Pakistan is considered an Indian classic, and his latest novel
Delhi has been hailed as a landmark in the history of
Indian English fiction.
In
his novel: Train
To Pakistan, he makes his readers share the individual
problems of loyalty and responsibility faced by the principal
figures in a little village on the frontier between India
and Pakistan where the action takes place. In the summer of
1947, a train full of dead Sikhs stirs up a battlefield in
the peaceful atmosphere of love and loyalty between the Muslims
and the Sikhs. It is then left to Juggat Singh-the village
gangster who is in love
with a Muslim girl- to redeem himself by saving many Muslim
lives in a stirring climax.
Other
books by Khushwant Singh include:
Train
to Pakistan
Company of Women
From Mind to Super-Mind : A Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita
by Khushwant Singh.
History of the Sikhs, vol 1: 1469-1839.Rep. with Corrections
History of the Sikhs. v2: 1839-1988. rep. with corrections
Hymns of Guru Nanak
I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale.
India : An Introduction
Japjee: Sikh Morning Prayer
My Bleeding Punjab
Need For A New Religion in India and Other Essays
Sex, Scotch & Scholarship
Sikhs Today
Uncertain Liaisons; Sex, Strife and Togetherness in Urban
India
We Indians
Women and Men in My Life
Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories
The Courtesan of Lucknow
Delhi : A Novel
Gurus, Godmen & Good People
How the Sikhs lost their kingdom
Land of the Five Rivers
Malicious gossip
More malicious gossip
Ranjit Singh : Maharajah of the Punjab
Shri Ram: a biography
Tragedy of Punjab : Operation Bluestar & After by Kuldip
Nayar, Khushwant Singh.
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