Portrayal of Indian Panorama in R.K. Narayan’s Short Stories

Abstract

R.K.Narayan is a famous Indian writer. This paper presents R.K.Narayan as a short story writer. He highlights many humorous superstitious elements in his books. This article analyses three of his short stories to substantiate him as an unparalleled short story writer: “An Astrologer’s Day,” “A Snake in the Grass,” and “Fruition at Forty.” In these short stories, R.K.Narayan demarcates the role of human relations. Particularly he focuses on money, love, and beauty and shows how these external and internal things affect our lives. He is really a master story teller, and he even presents a serious subject in a humorous and light-hearted way. However, in these stories there is an underlying sadness, which the readers can easily understand. He is successful both as a novelist and short story writer. The readers can find a variety of fine elements such as anger, humour, sadness etc, in his stories, which play vital role in the process of human relations.