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Saturday, September 13, 2003
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Malgudi in MadrasThe Hindu has always allotted space for books and literary discussion. In the past it had commissioned writers such as S.V. Vijayaraghavachariar, K.S. Venkatramani and Ka Na Subrahmanyam to contribute regular features. In 1991 it launched a Literary Review, a unique source of information for book lovers, with eminent contributers such as Amitava Ghosh, Amit Chaudhuri, Shashi Deshpande, Vikram Chandra, Arvind Mehrotra, Dom Moraes, Asokamitran and Keki Daruwala. But unquestionably, The Hindu's greatest achievement in the literary field was to have secured the contributions of a young man from Mysore, who was to become an international celebrity with "Swami and Friends" (Hamish Hamilton, 1935). Beginning as a reporter, R.K.Narayan saw his sketches and stories, some illustrated by brother R.K.Laxman, appear on the pages of the Madras daily. Those works of the 1930s and 1940s show just why Narayan's first novel had stunned and delighted Graham Greene, who said that they were "written with complete objectivity, with a humour strange to our fiction, closer to Chekhov than to any English writer, with the same underlying sense of beauty and sadness." 
Pioneering columnThe Religion column of The Hindu, a dream-come-true for the then Publisher, Kasturi Gopalan, will complete 40 years next April. The column, on religious discourses rather than on religion as such, first appeared on Sri Rama Navami in April ... 
Viewing drama at every stageThe Hindu has over the years focussed on the potential of Indian theatre, says GOWRI RAMNARAYAN 
Concerted support for Carnatic musicThe newspaper has historically been a forum for exchange of ideas and a record of evolving trends in the classical arts, says GOWRI RAMNARAYAN. Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
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