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Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan,popularly known as RK Narayan,was born in 1906 in Madras(India).As is the custom in south India,'R' in his name stands for Rasipuram,the name of the village to which his family belonged.though his family originally belonged to Rasipuram,long before Narayan's birth it had moved to Madrasand it was here in 1906 that RK Narayan was born.soon after his birth his father got a job as a teacher in Mysore and the family shifted to Mysore.while his brothers and sisters went with the parents to Mysore RK Narayan,was left in the custody of his grandmother.It was only later that he shifted and settled in Mysore. It is a bit surprising that one of the most successful indo-anglian writers was not a good student.he failed both in high school and the intermediate examinations and could get......

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