R.K . Nayayan
The Author
R.K. Narayan was born in Madras in 1906. He was educated in Mysore and went on to became on of the India's greatest writers in the english language. His first novle was swami and frinds (1935) and it immediatly wan him international acclaim. Then followed a succession of novels and volumes of short stories which went on to establish his reputation as a narrator of simple tales with a human touch. His novel , The Guide, was given sahitya akademi award and was made into a brilliant flim.
Nayaran was Known to write in simple language - of dreams and aspiration of the average middel classand lower class Indian families. Most of these Characters lived in fictional town of Malgudi and it is their lives that come pulsating through Narayan's by simplicity and gentle humour. He told stories of gental folks trying to live their lives their simple lives in a changing world. His stories are incredidly easy to red because of their simplicity and , perhaps,that is what make out his greatness,
He wrote fourteen novels, five volumes of short stories and numbers of travelogues and collection of not-fiction , condensed translation, and his memoir My Day (1975)
Narayan died on May 13, 2001.
A Note on the story
In many ways An Astrologer's Day is a 'thriller' and is filled with an uncanny suspence which is revealed only at the end. And Yet, like all his other stories, it deals with life of an ordanary Indian man whose life, when thouched by fate, had altered dramatically.
The suspense which is clearly mantained till the haunting end ensures that the reader will keep turning this pages , and dose arrive there is not just a sence of relife alone but indeed , this is fine suspence story.
PUNCTALLY At middday he opened his bag and spreadout his professional equipement, whoich consisted of a derzon cowrle shells, a suqar peice of cloth with obscure mystic charts on notebook ans a bundle of palmyra writing obsure mystic charts on was resplendent withsacred ash and vermillion,and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an outcome of a continual searching look for coustomers, but which his simple clints took to be a prophetic light, and felt comforted. The Power of his eyes was considerabbly enhanced by teir possition - placed as the
The Author
R.K. Narayan was born in Madras in 1906. He was educated in Mysore and went on to became on of the India's greatest writers in the english language. His first novle was swami and frinds (1935) and it immediatly wan him international acclaim. Then followed a succession of novels and volumes of short stories which went on to establish his reputation as a narrator of simple tales with a human touch. His novel , The Guide, was given sahitya akademi award and was made into a brilliant flim.
Nayaran was Known to write in simple language - of dreams and aspiration of the average middel classand lower class Indian families. Most of these Characters lived in fictional town of Malgudi and it is their lives that come pulsating through Narayan's by simplicity and gentle humour. He told stories of gental folks trying to live their lives their simple lives in a changing world. His stories are incredidly easy to red because of their simplicity and , perhaps,that is what make out his greatness,
He wrote fourteen novels, five volumes of short stories and numbers of travelogues and collection of not-fiction , condensed translation, and his memoir My Day (1975)
Narayan died on May 13, 2001.
A Note on the story
In many ways An Astrologer's Day is a 'thriller' and is filled with an uncanny suspence which is revealed only at the end. And Yet, like all his other stories, it deals with life of an ordanary Indian man whose life, when thouched by fate, had altered dramatically.
The suspense which is clearly mantained till the haunting end ensures that the reader will keep turning this pages , and dose arrive there is not just a sence of relife alone but indeed , this is fine suspence story.
PUNCTALLY At middday he opened his bag and spreadout his professional equipement, whoich consisted of a derzon cowrle shells, a suqar peice of cloth with obscure mystic charts on notebook ans a bundle of palmyra writing obsure mystic charts on was resplendent withsacred ash and vermillion,and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an outcome of a continual searching look for coustomers, but which his simple clints took to be a prophetic light, and felt comforted. The Power of his eyes was considerabbly enhanced by teir possition - placed as the
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