Churumuri is proud and privileged to record that its campaign to secure R.K. NARAYAN his rightful place in our memories has found national, even international recognition.
Ramachandra Guha, the historian, writer and columnist, has devoted a whole column in the Sunday Magazine of The Hindu today to churumuri‘s landmark campaign.
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I fully support the campaign to turn R.K.Narayan’s house in Yadavgiri in Mysore into a memorial such as proposed by Ram Guha — ‘a writers retreat’ dedicated to Narayan.
You may like to refer to my article titled: ” At Home with the Malgudi Man” published in the Hindu Magazine of 30 April 2006.
Hisotrian Ramachandra Guha’s article makes an interesting reading. Congratulations ‘Churumuri’ for your campaign which has caught a wide attention.
I thank Churumuri team and Mr Guha for spreadding the awareness of our own R K Narayanan.
Mysore’a New upcoming projects like the flyover nearby kuvempunagar should be named after Narayanan, How about ‘Malgudi fly’ ?
Thanks to Ramachandra Guha & Churumuri for a well deserved campaign. We must remember our icons well. I hope that RK Narayan’s house gets turned in to a nice place in his memory soon. There can be no better place than this.
Churumuri can continue the campaign and i am sure all of us who enjoyed RK Narayan’s works will participate.
I’d like to see the University of Mysore institute an endowed chair in RKN’s name. I don’t know if vice-chancellor Dr. Shashidhara Prasad reads Churumuri, but if there’s an initiative at the university level I am willing to help raise the endowment. An R.K. Narayan Chair of English, committed to developing Indian fiction writing in English, will be a more appropriate tribute to the man than a mere circle or flyover named for him.
Of all the suggestions, Nikhil Moro’s makes eminent sense. Naming a road, circle, locality are all transient. Narayan’s memory needs to be implanted among students and teachers, and in schools, colleges and Universities. The current Governor is a genuine man of letters. Maybe, the Raj Bhavan should be churumuri’s next stop if the University is not willing to do it on its own. An endowment is one possibility; an R.K. Narayan museum is another.
Greatness is cannot be achieved just in show casing god given talent alone. It should be in the character of the persona. Once the great RKN commenting on JAWA’s contribution to carnatic music made an ass of himself stating that he did not compose at all and it was all the work of MV ! He just showed how small great men could be !
Mr Guha’s article spoke to the depths of my soul — thank you Churumuri, for the campaign. It is one of my major grouses that R K Narayan’s greatness has not been duly recognized — for the simplicity of his tales and the profundity of the thoughts he conveyed through them, he deserves a posthumous Nobel.