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Narayan was an Indian writer and novelist.

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He was also a short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, memoirist, and an editor. He mainly wrote fiction, non-fiction, and mythology. His first published work was a book review of the Development of Maritime Laws of 17th-Century England. Narayan died on 13 May While living with his grandmother, R. After completing high school, Narayan could not pass the university entrance examination and spent a year at home reading and writing.

In , he successfully passed the examination and enrolled in the B. He was aware of the value of education and criticized the educational system that colonialism had put. This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage. What about our own roots?

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I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices. His father was a school headmaster, and due to his frequent transfers in his job, R. Narayan was sent to his maternal grandmother, Parvati, who taught him arithmetic, mythology, and Sanskrit.

His grandmother used to call him by the nickname Kunjappa. In , R. Narayan was the third child in a family of eight children.