In today’s Andolana, the Kannada broadsheet newspaper from Mysore, appears this small, single-column advertisement on its last page. A dignified portrait, not looking into the camera, writ with decency and …
Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph, Calcutta: R.K. Narayan did not write in Kannada, but his works sensitively portray the people, culture and landscapes of the state of Karnataka. His 1938 …
SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Parochial thoughts. Narrow-minded pettiness. Divisive ideas that spell acrimonious discord. Ttaking cheap potshots at men and twisting core issues out of proportion. Displaying a reckless and irresponsible …
The silhouette of Jayachamaraja Wodeyar, the 25th and last maharaja of Mysore—a “raja-rishi” (statesman-saint) in the words of a certain somebody—on Wednesday, as a sad and silly storm over a …
K.C. BELLIAPPA writes: R.K. Narayan is in the news again thanks to the objections raised to a memorial for him by a host of Kannada writers. The fact that many …
Khushwant Singh in the Hindustan Times: “Once while attending a writers conference at Hawaii the only participant I knew was R.K. Narayan. He was a saintly sort of person, not …
For a decade after his demise, R.K. Narayan‘s lovingly built residence in Mysore lay unloved and uncared-for. The sight of the crooked teeth of excavators rapaciously chomping at its edges …
churumuri.com is delighted to record the renaming (and flagging off) of the daily Mysore-Yeshwanthpur Express between Karnataka’s two premier cities as Malgudi Express, to perpetuate the memory of India’s first …
The minister for external affairs, Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, may be creating news for all the wrong reasons in the year of the lord 2011. But he has struck the right …
On the 10th anniversary of his passing away, The Guardian, London, has a long piece on the legendary creator of the fictional town of Malgudi, R.K. Narayan, with churumuri‘s own …
When Rajiv Gandhi‘s “feeder airline” Vayudoot took flight in the mid-1980s, the onus of inaugurating its services to (and from) Mysore fell on the fragile shoulders of its most famous …
The Guardian, London, ran a story last April on a coffee shop in a hotel in Mysore staffed by Dalit girls. “Dressed in a sunshine yellow and burgundy langa davane, …
CHETAN KRISHNASWAMY writes: The Kukkarahalli Kere in Mysore stirs the soul. Unfailingly, every evening, the calm waters lunge flirtatiously towards a flamboyant sun performing a visual jugalbandi enthralling the walkers …
Seema Chisthi in The Indian Express: “The non-Congress, non-BJP parties rallied in Dobbespet, and now the Congress president is scheduled to flag off their campaign from Davangere in north Karnataka …
churumuri.com is delighted to record that the writer and historian Ramachandra Guha has been honoured with the nation’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan. A well-wisher of churumuri since …
CHETAN KRISHNASWAMY forwards an excerpt from a piece by V.K. Ramachandran that appeared in Frontline magazine in 1998. *** “It is a matter of considerable interest that two of India’s …
“TARLE” SUBBA and ARUN PADAKI write: In the documentary, “R.K. Narayan—India’s Chekov“, Narayan leisurely explains, that strolling through its cultural, natural, commercial and social landmarks, and enjoying the life around …
On our newly launched food blog, kosambari, Citibank’s youngest country head ever, Jaithirth alias Jerry Rao, recounts what his grandfather told him on the three greatest contributions of Mysore: R.K. …
The inimitable T.S. NAGARAJAN writes: I discovered the joys of walking from two friends—R.K.Narayan and Khushwant Singh–-both of them writers of great repute and walkers of equal fame. I had …
The following is the full and unexpurgated text of the paper read on 10 October 2006 in Mysore at the international seminar to celebrate the birth centenary of eminent English …
First published in the New Yorker, September 15, 1962 in an essay titled ‘The train had just arrived at Malgudi Station’ *** “R.K. Narayan told me about his Mysore day. …
In 1939, R.K. Narayan wrote a travelogue on the Mysore State, titled Mysore. The book, which saw a second print five years later, is now sadly out of print. In …
CHETAN KRISHNASWAMY writes: I write this piece in the context of certain uncharitable comments that I saw in response to the Churumuri campaign to secure civic recognition for R.K. Narayan …
A churumuri delegation today called upon the Governor of Karnataka, His Excellency T.N. Chaturvedi, on behalf of churumuri readers, to submit to him a memorandum seeking civic recognition for R.K. …
Churumuri is proud and privileged to record that its campaign to secure R.K. NARAYAN his rightful place in our memories has found national, even international recognition. Ramachandra Guha, the historian, …
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