R. K. Narayan (born 1906) is one of the best-known of the Indo-English writers. He created the imaginary town of Malgudi, where realistic characters in a typically Indian setting lived amid unpredictable events. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanswami, who p...

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Some, unlike the Chronicler, are too polite to say anything about it, but important Washington benefactors are increasingly distressed by what benefit participant Jayne Ikard calls the "multi-tiered" occasion, and what the London organizers of the Oct. 4 Princess Di affair called the "two-tent"...