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...four FAS members are English professor Stephen Greenblatt, history and African and African American studies professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, chemistry professor Eric N. Jacobsen, and astronomy professor Ramesh Narayan...
...Master of Malgudi Thank you for "the fountainhead" [Aug. 15-22], about novelist R.K. Narayan, who vividly brought to life the make-believe South Indian town of Malgudi through detailed descriptions of every street, alley, shop and office. [The fictional town is the setting for almost all of Narayan's stories.] One of India's most subtly humorous writers, Narayan delighted in exploring the lives of ordinary Indians of all ages. A literary great, he is still alive in the hearts of many people around the world! Suresh Kumar Parappurath Bangalore, India...
...hone the thesis-advising process, the Astronomy and Astrophysics department appointed a Senior Thesis coordinator, who is currently Ramesh Narayan, according to Head Tutor Bryan M. Gaensler...
...number of Narayan's characters set out in the morning literally not knowing how or whether they will eat that night. In Four Rupees, a man is offered the job of recovering a treasured brass pot that has fallen down a well. He is horrified at the prospect of shinnying down 60 ft. into the unknown. Nevertheless, he succeeds. When he proudly brings his wages home, his wife looks at his disheveled state and decides he has robbed someone for the money. A similar outcome awaits the hero of A Horse and Two Goats. An old man, who daily pastures...
While inventing and telling such incidents the author remains both sympathetic and dispassionate. Narayan's mastery of lucid English has somehow been achieved without the condescension and exasperation that Western converts often feel toward their unenlightened compatriots. The narrator of Annamalai, a writer by trade, describes his method of coping with a difficult but intriguing servant: "The only way to exist in harmony with Annamalai was to take him as he was; to improve or enlighten him would only exhaust the reformer and disrupt nature's design." From Narayan's decision to suspend judgments hangs a galaxy of irresistible tales...