Swami and Friends is the first of a series of novels written by R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English language novelist from India. The novel, the first...

social observation. In Swami and Friends, for example, the series explores the childhood experiences of Swami and his friends, highlighting post-colonial...

semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. Narayan highlights the social context and everyday life of his characters...

novels and short stories of R. K. Narayan. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. Starting with his first novel, Swami and Friends, all but...

Nag and in its film version, Swami And Friends. Nayaker was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Master...

K. Narayan. It is the second book of a trilogy that begins with Swami and Friends and ends with The English Teacher. It is again set in Malgudi, the fictional...

novels and collections of short stories set in "Malgudi". The English Teacher was preceded by Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and Malgudi...

Quotation "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached" (more on Wikiquote) Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath...

Labour and the Rural Poor, edited by Walter Hauser, Manohar Publishers, paperback, 2005, ISBN 81-7304-600-X Swami And Friends: Sahajanand Saraswati And Those...

2019, the BBC published a list of novels selected by a panel of six writers and critics, who had been asked to choose 100 English language novels "that have...