Khushwant Singh on R K Narayan
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It's an excerpt from Khushwant Singh's essay on R K Narayan (both Indian writers). I could not understand what made Narayan angry with K Singh. Could you please help?
Thanks,
Tom
PS: I mean, what new did Khushwant Singh write about? The incident at All India Radio was well recorded any way?
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Mr. Tom I mean, what new did Khushwant Singh write about? The incident at All India Radio was well recorded any way?
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- Tom I mean, what new did Khushwant Singh write about?
- The incident at All India Radio was well recorded any way?
- I presume that the Singh's self-criticism and the Narayan's reaction described in I was foolish enough to write it in my column.
- Narayan never spoke to me again was new in the whole story.
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Mr. Tom I mean, what new did Khushwant Singh write about? The incident at All India Radio was well recorded any way?
I presume that the Singh's self-criticism and the Narayan's reaction described in I was foolish enough to write it in my column. Narayan never spoke to me again was new in the whole story.
0Paraphrasing and reading between the lines, this is what Singh said about Narayan:
He (Narayan) pretended to be humble and modest, but it was all a great sham. He demanded that he be paid the highest speakers' fees by All Indian Radio, putting himself in a one-upmanship position over all the other invitees. In his self-aggrandizing travelogue, he reports (supposedly just to docu
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