About the author RK Narayan brought Indian writing in English to western nations. He was helped in the venture by Graham Greene. Narayan’s stories mostly have the fictional town of Malgudi as their geographical reference point. Malgudi could be anywhere in India. It is a microcosm of the huge country. Even today there are readers who believe that Malgudi exists; so realistically did Narayan describe the place. Narayan’s stories were brief‚ some barely ten pages long‚ but within this he was able
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Narayan‚ the chief characters commonly setout on a quest for identity in maintaining with definite philosophical- cultural suppositions which shape the ground of his socio- religious inheritance and his psycho- ethical ambience. The truth is that Narayan himself is committed to definite views of the Indian tradition which can be suitably presented to hide the socio- economic
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Are you a leader‚ born or cultivated or both? How do you characterize your leadership traits based on the leadership profiles presented by Narayana Murthy and Rahul Khosla? Ans. For centuries there has been a debate about whether leaders must be born into their leadership capacities or whether leadership can be developed in all of us. Our beliefs about how people become leaders affect how we evaluate people’s leadership potential. Believing people are born leaders is likely to result in a focus
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As Circe tries to seduce men and turn them into pigs‚ Penelope stays loyal and obedient to her husband. While Soorpanaka tries to steal a woman’s spouse and sleep with him‚ Sita refuses to leave her husband’s side. These traits show the major differences between temptresses and ideal wives in The Odyssey and The Ramayana. Though temptresses have more force‚ faithful wives always end up with the better lifestyle. Both The Odyssey and Ramayana portray women as ideal wives and temptresses. Soorpanaka
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reading story books from the school library and then try to remember all those stories while writing essays in the exam. However‚ my first real inspiration to write something by myself was when I came across a book called "Wise and Otherwise" by Sudha Murthy. Initially‚ I was too ignorant to know who this lady is‚ but as I read the stories in this book‚ I couldn’t stop obsessing over her. I was fascinated over how she had described the human facades in a very
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Types of Leadership 1. Autocratic Style: Leaders have complete authority and control”His style is ’Do What I Tell You”.He retains as much power & decision making authority as possible. He makes decisions without reference or consulting to anyone else. It makes high degree of dependency on the leader which may create de-motivation and hostility of staff. • An autocratic leader is the one who commands and expects followership. The leader leads by the ability to withhold or give rewards
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INTRODUCTION: 1981 was the year when Mr. Narayan Murthy found a scope to render super class information technology amenities to the already developed countries of the world. But again he wanted to achieve this by hiring very brilliant IT personnel from India in comparative low wages to assist their clients. Mr. Narayan Murthy and his company Infosys was established with a fund of only 10000 INR which is approx. 1000$ that period of time. Initially there were six co-founders including his family members
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THE AUTHOR The author of “The Vendor of Sweets” is R. K. Narayan. His full name is Risipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami. He was born on 10th of October 1906 in Chennai‚ India. He majored in the University of Mysore. He was one of the 3 leading figures of early Indian literature in English. He is an Indian writer best writer known for his works set in the South Indian town of Malgudi. His other books were The Guide‚ Swami and Friends‚ Malgudi Days‚ The English Teacher and The Bachelor Of
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In Malgudi Days‚ although R.K. Narayan seems to present us with a bleak portrayal of India where life is very hard and there is very little human happiness‚ he means to reflect the triumph of the human spirit over the cruel circumstances of life. In India‚ poverty and the lack of education are prejudiced against and people are discriminated against because they are poor. In ’A Willing Slave’‚ Ayah is discriminated against and treated badly merely because she is an uneducated servant. When she comes
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The story is a really good story confusing but humorous. At first‚ as you go reading‚ the story gives you a different idea of what is going to happen in it. Muni‚ the Indian village‚ wasn’t a wealthy man but he had his cattle to live on‚ but as it cattle went dying he was just left with 2 goats. He didn’t have much money‚ he was always asking for credit to the shop man and was always inventing lies to get the credit (the lies he came up with were funny). What confuses me more is when the foreigner
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