Echoes of Everyday Life: In Short-Stories of R.K.Narayan

Abstract

This Paper seeks to examine the human emotions that depicted in short-stories of R.K.Narayan. Narayan, Indian-English writer, was writing in both pre and post independence era of India. Most of his works set in contemporary era.  He was heavily inspired by Indian philosophy that relies on relationship between human beings, and the human relations with Mother Nature, with plant, animals and other creatures on earth. We find these kinds of bondage between the characters of R.K.Narayan and his characters’ connection with animals and birds also. The impulsive portrayal through characters by Narayan creates a mesmerizing picture of contemporary Indian society. Reader feels Emotions like love, hate, sympathy, humor, kindness through the depiction given by R.K.Narayan. In modern time, there are various innovations taking place in different fields like science, technology and space, but somewhere the society is lacking in emotional aspects. In this time R.K. Narayan gives the positive hope through his characters’ emotional depiction. Through gentle irony, understated humour, and compassionate realism, Narayan elevates the ordinary – school routines, domestic quarrels, market gossips, petty ambitions and small acts of kindness – into timeless art.