Word: narayan
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...Narayan was very voluble, very charming. Not that Shah Dev wasn’t, he was just more reserved and cautious,” says Boaz Shatton ’69, a friend from...
Shah Dev, as he liked to be called, spent all his time at Harvard accompanied by a bodyguard and tutor, Narayan Shrestha...
...Malgudi wasn't able to hold the independence movement, it wasn't able later to hold the great social changes, the general opening up, that began to come to India with independence. When Narayan tries to deal with that opening up, his fine humor can turn to a gross kind of satire. In one late novel, for instance, a Malgudi man returns from the United States with a Korean wife and a story-writing machine...
...Narayan's mystical idea of an eternal India is antihistorical. But without that idea, and its associated religious sentiments, he would not have arrived at his remarkable way of looking and his peerless humor. A more clear-sighted man would not have been able to filter out or make harmless the distress of India, as Narayan does in Malgudi. But then we wouldn't have had the great early books...
...grown to feel that he is in some ways like Gandhi. Gandhi's first book, Indian Home Rule, published in South Africa in 1909 when he was 40, is full of religious idiocies. No one would have prophesied a future for him. But he had in a heightened way Narayan's mystical idea of an eternal India; and look what happened to him. Narayan, with his glories and limitations, is the Gandhi of modern Indian literature...