Narayan's mentor and friend Graham Greene was instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan's first four books including the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in Swami and Friends. The Financial Expert was hailed as one of the most original works of 1951 and Sahitya Academy Award winner The Guide was adapted for the film (winning a Filmfare Award for Best Film) and for Broadway.
R.K.Narayan was born in a Tamil Brahmin family[4] on 10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India.[5] He was one of eight children; six sons and two daughters. Narayan was second among the sons; his younger brother Ramachandran later became an editor at Gemini Studios, and the youngest brother Laxman became a cartoonist.[6][7] His father was a school headmaster, and Narayan did some of his studies at his father's school. As his father's job entailed frequent transfers, Narayan spent a part of his childhood under the care of his maternal grandmother, Parvati.[8] During this time, his best friends and playmates were a peacock and a mischievous monkey.[1][9][10]
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Narayan moved to Mysore to live with his family when his father was transferred to the Maharajah's College High School. The well-stocked library at the school and his father's own fed his reading habit, and he started writing as well. After completing high school, Narayan failed the university entrance examination and spent a year at home reading and writing; he subsequently passed the examination in 1926 and joined Maharaja College of Mysore. It took Narayan four years to obtain his bachelor's degree, a year longer than usual. After being persuaded by a friend that taking a master's degree (M.A.) would kill his interest in literature, he briefly held a job as a school teacher; however, he quit in protest when the headmaster of the school asked him to substitute for the physical training master.[7] The experience made Narayan realise that the only career for him was in writing, and he decided to stay at home and write novels.[17][18] His first published work was a book review of Development of Maritime Laws of 17th-Century England.[19] Subsequently, he started writing the occasional local interest story for English newspapers and magazines. Although the writing did not pay much (his income for the first year was nine rupees and twelve annas), he had a regular life and few needs, and his family and friends respected and supported his unorthodox choice of career.[20] In 1930, Narayan wrote his first novel, Swami and Friends,[19] an effort ridiculed by his uncle[21] and rejected by a string of publishers.[13] With this book, Narayan created Malgudi, a town that creatively reproduced the social sphere of the country; while it ignored the limits imposed by colonial rule, it also grew with the various socio-political changes of British and post-independence India.[22]
While vacationing at his sister's house in Coimbatore, in 1933, Narayan met and fell in love with Rajam, a 15-year-old girl who lived nearby. Despite many astrological and financial obstacles, Narayan managed to gain permission from the girl's father and married her.[23] Following his marriage, Narayan became a reporter for a Madras-based paper called The Justice, dedicated to the rights of non-Brahmins. The publishers were thrilled to have a Brahmin Iyer in Narayan espousing their cause. The job brought him in contact with a wide variety of people and issues.[24] Earlier, Narayan had sent the manuscript of Swami and Friends to a friend at Oxford, and about this time, the friend showed the manuscript to Graham Greene. Greene recommended the book to his publisher, and it was finally published in 1935.[1] Greene also counselled Narayan on shortening his name to become more familiar to the English-speaking audience.[25] The book was semi-autobiographical and built upon many incidents from his own childhood.[26] Reviews were favourable but sales were few. Narayan's next novel The Bachelor of Arts (1937), was inspired in part by his experiences at college,[27] and dealt with the theme of a rebellious adolescent transitioning to a rather well-adjusted adult;[28] it was published by a different publisher, again at the recommendation of Greene. His third novel, The Dark Room (1938) was about domestic disharmony,[29] showcasing the man as the oppressor and the woman as the victim within a marriage, and was published by yet another publisher; this book also received good reviews. In 1937, Narayan's father died, and Narayan was forced to accept a commission from the government of Mysore as he was not making any money.[30]
In 1953, his works were published in the United States for the first time, by Michigan State University Press, who later (in 1958), relinquished the rights to Viking Press.[44] While Narayan's writings often bring out the anomalies in social structures and views, he was himself a traditionalist; in February 1956, Narayan arranged his daughter's wedding following all orthodox Hindu rituals.[45] After the wedding, Narayan began travelling occasionally, continuing to write at least 1500 words a day even while on the road.[38] The Guide was written while he was visiting the United States in 1956 on the Rockefeller Fellowship. While in the U.S., Narayan maintained a daily journal that was to later serve as the foundation for his book My Dateless Diary.[46] Around this time, on a visit to England, Narayan met his friend and mentor Graham Greene for the first and only time.[32] On his return to India, The Guide was published; the book is the most representative of Narayan's writing skills and elements, ambivalent in expression, coupled with a riddle-like conclusion.[47] The book won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960.[48]
Answer: I think that Sidda is a simple person whom poverty has drawn to the path of a servant. He is honest and innocent. Yes, Sidda is a suitable friend of Leela. Sidda has the mindset of a five years old child. The text provides several examples of it. First, he has the time to leave his work and accompany Leela in her play. Secondly, he has the fancy to tell that the ball has touched the moon and tells stories of animals in the jungle, gods in heaven and of magicians having the capacity of conjuring up golden castles. Above all Sidda shows the mentality of being a friend of Leela and so Leela clings closer to him.
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