In response to churumuri‘s campaign to get R.K. Narayan his due, Dr Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi of the University of Chicago has weighed in with a piece entitled ‘In appreciation of R.K. Narayan: Great Garbo don’t dig no statues’. A must-read.
http://www.landoflime.com/archives/calm-entry/in-appreciation-of-r-k-narayan/
Now that a campaign to name a road, or instal a statue of R K Narayan is in full swing, may I suggest that another institution, called Star of Mysore, needs to be revived too.
A newspaper which most Mysoreans grew up on and with, badly needs a good sub. One way to go about doing it would be to have a tie up with churmuri.wordpress.com. The city of R K Narayan should at least boast of a well brought out newspaper.