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     Summary :- Swami and Friends(1935) ,is a pure art  of childhood written by R K Narayan. He is  a pure artist of Indian English literature. He has also gone through the experiences of journalist as his career. First of all, he writes for newspapers and magazines then he starts writing as a pure writer. His work may be classified into different categories as political novels, domestic novels and sensational novels. He has written about 10 novels and more than 150 short stories.In learning about the town "Malgudi", readers are introduced to Swaminathan and his friends in  his novel, a group which includes Somu, Sankar, Mani and Pea. They have a very close friendship despite their differences, which doesn't seem to follow the phrase, "Birds of a feather flock together". Graham Greene said, "It is a classical school boy story of a child, written with complete objectivity, with a humour strange for our fiction, closer to Chekhov than to a...

THE GUIDE is one of the best narrative novels written by R K Narayan.He was an identical novelist of India.This novel is a mirror of modern Indian society, the protagonist and occasional narrator of R.K.Narayan’s The Guide. Raju is a character whose entire life is  upon the sins of hypocrisy and dissimulation. He shows multiple careers including his work as a tourist guide in his hometown of Malgudi, southern part of India.His other career as a “Dance Manager” for Rosie. (The seductive dancer he begins an affair with when she visits Malgudi with her husband, Marco). His final reincarnation as a holy man in a small village in India; premised deceptions and lies. The life  of Raju dramatizes the way in which Raju’s propensity for deceit leads him into trouble. Openly, Narayan suggests us through his potential experiences that Raju’s deceptions not only leading his complete corruption but also to the destruction of everything he holds there.  The various roles are play...

R. K. Narayan(1906- 2001), was born in a village 'Rashipuram' in Madras, South India. His father's name was Krishna Swami and he educated at Maharaja College in Mysore. There  was a magic represented by him that 'R' represented his village and 'K' represented his father. He himself established as a writer, written for newspapers and magazines. He won many awards for his literary skills. He came into contact with a beautiful girl 'Rajam' whom he fell in love and so soon he kept a marriage proposal before her father. By his approval, they got married. After four years of his marriage, she died so that was an electric shot of his life. His novels directly hit the core of human heart. He started writing through his emotional levels, his first novel 'Swami and Friends' (1935) and its successor 'The Bachelor of Arts' (1937) are both set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi. Other ‘Malgudi’ novels are as 'The Dark Room' (...

Kamala Das(1934- 2009),she was a leading figure in Indian English literature, her Malayalam pen name Madhavikutty, Muslim name Kamala Surayya. She was Indian author who wrote openly and frankly about female sexual desire and the experience of being an Indian woman. She was a part of a generation of Indian writers whose work centred on personal rather than colonial experiences, and her short stories, poetry, memoirs, and essays and a number of articles brought her respect and notoriety in equal measures. She wrote in both languages,mostly poetry in English and also for south Indians in Malayalam under the pen name Madhavikutty.                        She was born into a high class family. Her mother, Nalapat Balamani Amma, she was a well-known poet and her father, V.M. Nair, he was an automobile company executive and a journalist in our country. She grew up in what is ...

" George Bernard Shaw ", he was born on July 1856 and he died on 2nd of November 1950 at 94, he was known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.He had British nationality and Irish too.He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923) . With a wide range,  incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Dublin, he moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid of1880s,he had become a respected theatre and music critic in London. He  was following a political awakening there, he joined th...

Everyone knows that education is the backbone of any society in the world and system of education is the vein through which its potentiality is functioning. I can't stop myself to write about this system after realizing very close across the nation. Everyone wants to provide better education to their children as much as possible. Through it,we think about improvement and development of the society. This is the most essential part of human life. Our government is also providing so many amenities to the students at very large scale. Government is spending more and more money regarding education in its regulating area. By this system of government, students have been benefiting time to time and they also thank the government for this good initiative. I have also seen the students of our society working in different fields across the world and also they maintain high class groups after earning sound money. They get whatever they want in their lives and able to provide the same to t...

Christopher Marlowe (1564- 1593), he was the greatest dramatist in English literature before William Shakespeare. He hailed from a shoe- maker family, nothing sure of his life record but we suppose that he completed his B.A in 1583 with very low record of merit so that the university refused him his admission in M.A. Then, he started work as a spy in British Government channel during his free time. When he performed his duty with full force by maintaining privacy of government. By taking care of his personality, the university decided to grant him M.A degree in English.                      On another side, he was very ambitious to write dramas and wanted to establish himself as a famed dramatist in the world. He had not enough source to write at home therefore he took decision to move from there and shifted in London. After spending six months there, he wrote Hero and Leander ...