Authors:Deepa Narayan, Deepa Narayan-Parker,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: directions, development, sourcebook, reduction, poverty, empowerment
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-07
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821351664
ISBN-13: 9780821351666

Poverty will not be reduced on a large scale without tapping into the energy, skills, and motivation of the millions of poor people around the world. This book offers a framework for empowerment that focuses on increasing poor people’s freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. This approach requires three societal changes: a change in mindset, from viewing poor people as the problem to viewing them as essential partners in reducing poverty; a change in the relationship between poor people and formal systems, enabling them to participate in decisions that affect their lives;

Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, century, classic, malgudi, tiger
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0140185453
ISBN-13: 9780140185454

A venerable tiger looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career he is then sold into films (co-starring with a Tarzan) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom.

Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, signs, painter
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0143039660
ISBN-13: 9780143039662

For Raman the sign painter, life is a familiar and satisfying routine. A man of simple, rational ways, he lives with his pious aunt and prides himself on his creative work. But all that changes when he meets Daisy, a thrillingly independent young woman who wishes to bring birth control to the area. Hired to create signs for her clinics, Raman finds himself smitten by a love he cannot understand, much less avoid—and soon realizes that life isn’t so routine anymore. Set in R. K. Narayan’s fictional city of Malgudi, The Painter of Signs is a wry, bittersweet treasure.

Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: teacher, english
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1980-10-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0226568350
ISBN-13: 9780226568355

This novel completes the informal trilogy which began with Swami and Friends and The Bachelor of Arts. The protagonist, Krishna, is an English teacher at the same college he had attended as a student. Although Krishna has recently married, his wife Susila and their daughter live with his parents-in-law some miles away. The story opens with his immediate family deciding to join him in Malgudi. Krishna is initially frightened by his new state of affairs, but he soon finds that his love for both his wife and child grows deeper than he could have imagined."Mr. Narayan has repeatedly been compared

Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: century, penguin, classic, malgudi, eater, man
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1993-05-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140185488
ISBN-13: 9780140185485

This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenial days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing-women up the printer’s private stairs. When Vasu, in search of larger game, threatens the life of a temple elephant that Nataraj has befriended, complications ensue that are both laughable and tragic.

Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: others, demons, gods
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1993-05-15
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226568253
ISBN-13: 9780226568256

Following in the footsteps of the storytellers of his native India, R. K. Narayan has produced his own versions of tales taken from the Ramayana and the Mahabarata. Carefully selecting those stories which include the strongest characters, and omitting the theological or social commentary that would have drawn out the telling, Narayan informs these fascinating myths with his urbane humor and graceful style."Mr. Narayan gives vitality and an original viewpoint to the most ancient of legends, lacing them with his own blend of satire, pertinent explanation and thoughtful commentary."—Santha Rama

Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: series, fiction, phoenix, friends, swami
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0226568318
ISBN-13: 9780226568317

"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and Chekhov--for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect--Conrad for example--but who hold us at a long arm’s length with their ’courtly foreign grace.’ Narayan (whom I don’t hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian."--Graham Greene Offering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middle-c