Images of India in R.K. Narayan’s Fictions and Novels

Exploring the Portrayal of India in R.K. Narayan's Fiction

Abstract

Fictitious writing in India is as old as the narrative skills in the Indian life. It gets its origin from the stories and lullabies to children that reflected the life of Indian Societies with diversity in color and cast.R.K. Narayan, one of the trio, the founding fathers of India in English fiction, the other two being Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao has been portraying India the spirit, the muddled soul, India the United Nations with the ethos that have their beginning in the Indus Valley Civilization founded on the banks of river Indus and the Ganga. Indian ethos, culture, life, systemic beliefs religious practices and principles, the life of Ascetics and Rishis, the sensuous and the sane, the naturalist and the spiritualist and so on. This paper attempts to analyze the India that is portrayed in the fiction of R.K. Narayan.