This document provides information on several popular Indian literature figures, including RK Narayan, Chetan Bhagat, Premchand, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Narsinh Mehta, Rabindranath Tagore, and Jhaverchand Meghani. It discusses their biographies, major works, and contributions to Indian literature in English and various regional Indian languages such as Hindi, Gujarati, and Bengali.

1. Popular Indian
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2. RK Narayan

3. Writing Struggle
• Even though Narayan is a well respected writer now, his early years
were not that easy. In his autobiography, he mentions how he wrote
several stories revolving around matrimony, for his uncle’s friend who
was starting a magazine on it. Later, the editor said, that he would
publish the stories one by one, over a period of time, and the
payment too was delayed. Or not made at all. I am not sure.
The whole concept of him becoming a writer, was in itself a very
uncomfortable pill to swallow for his family.
“Unwisdom! Unwisdom!” one gentleman cried. “You could write as
a hobby, how can you make a living as a writer? The notion is very
unpractical.”

4. Success At Last!
• His novel did ultimately get published, and in quite a dramatic
fashion.
After being rejected by half-a-dozen publishers in England, he asked
his friend Purna, to weigh it with a stone and drop it into the Thames
river.
Better sense prevailed, and Purna sent the novel to Graham Greene.
He said that the book was one in ten thousand and found a publisher
for Swami and Friends.
The novel despite being well received did not do well as far as sales
are concerned.
The publisher, Hamish Hamilton, refused to publish his second novel,

5. RK Narayan
• Besides his fictional work he has written, the two great Indian epics-
Ramayana and Mahabharata, a healthy amount of essays, an
autobiography, a travelogue, and also a Guide Book of Karnataka,
which he republished as ‘The Emerald Route’ under his own
publication.
“It may sound hyperbolic, but I am prepared to state that almost
every individual among the five hundred millions living in India is
aware of the story of the Ramayana in some measure or the other.
Everyone of whatever age, outlook, education, or station in life knows
the essential part of the epic.”
“As a fiction writer, I have enjoyed reading Kamban, felt the
stimulation of his poetry and the felicity of his language, admired the

6. CHETAN BHAGAT

7. BORN: 22 April 1974 (age39)
OCCUPATION: Writer
NATIONALITY: Indian
ALMA MATER: Army public school , IIT Delhi ,
IIM Ahmedabad
GENRES: Fiction, management, humour
NOTABLE WORK(S): Five Point someone
2 States
SPOUSE(S): Anusha Bhagat
CHILDREN: 2

8. • Chetan Bhagat is an indian author
,columnist(Journalist) and speaker.
• He is the author of bestselling novels like
five point someone,
one night@ call center ,etc.
• All the books have remained bestsellers since their
release and the three have inspired bollywood films
like 3 Idiots and Kai Po Che!
• He writes op-ed columns for popular english and
hindi newspapers, including “The Times Of India” and
“Dainik Bhaskar”, focusing on youth, career and issues
based on national development.
• He quits his investment banking career in 2009, to
focus on writing.

9. His Books
• The 3 mistake of my life
• 2 states(the story about my marriage)
• 5 point someone
• One night @ call center
• Revolution 2020
• What Young India Wants
• Half GirlFriend

10. प्रेमचंद
चचतंा एक काली ददवार की भांतत चारों
ओर से घेर लेती है, जिसमें से तिकलिे
की फिर कोई गली िहीं सूझती।

11. • Premchand was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamahi, a
village located near Varanasi.
• His mother died when he was 7 and his father
remarried.
• He got married when he was 15 to a girl more older
than him.
• Being poor in arithmetic skills, he couldn’t sought
admission in Central Hindu College.
• Remarried to Shivrani Devi.

12. • He wrote over three hundred short stories and
fourteen novels, many essays and letters, plays and
translations
• Also he is considered the first Hindi author whose
writings prominently featured realism and rational
thoughts.
• Died on 8 October 1936 due to poor health

14. Harivansh Rai Bachchan

15. Life of Harivansh Rai Bachchan
He was born as Harivanshrai Srivastava into a Kayasth
family on November 27, 1907 at a small town (of Patti,
in district of Pratapgarh,U.P.) near Allahabad in the
United Provinces (modern Uttar Pradesh).
He was called “bachchan” (meaning ‘child’) at home.
He received his formal schooling in a municipal school
and followed the family tradition of attending Kayasth
Paathshaalas to learn Urdu as the first step to a career in
law.
He later studied at the Allahabad University and Banaras
Hindu University.

16. WORKS
He is best known for his early lyric poem Madhushala
(The House of Wine), which has been translated into
English and many regional Indian languages including
Bengali, Marathi and Malayalam.
There are some poem of harivanshrai bachchan
Tera har (1932)
Madhushala(1935)
Madhubala(1936)
Madhukalash(1937)
Ekaant sangit(1939)
Milan yamini(1950)
Bahut din bite(1967)

18. A Brief History
• Narsinh Mehta was born in Vadnagar Nagar community at Talaja and later shifted
to Junagadh (then Jirndurg) in Saurashtra, Gujarat. He lost his parents when he
was 5 years old. He could not speak until the age of 8. He was raised by his grand
mother Jaygauri.[1]
• He married Manekbai probably in the year 1429. Mehta and his wife stayed at his
brother Bansidhar’s place in Junagadh.
• However, his cousin's wife (Sister-in-law or bhabhi) did not welcome Narsinh very
well. She was an ill-tempered woman, always taunting and insulting Narsinh
mehta for his worship (Bhakti). One day, when Narasinh mehta had enough of
these taunts and insults, he left the house and went to a nearby forest in search
of some peace.

19. Famous Works
• Mehta is a pioneer poet of Gujarati literature. He is known for his
literary forms called " pada (verse) ", " Aakhyan ", & " Prabhatiya ".
One of the most important features of Mehta’s works is that they are
not available in the language in which Narsinh had composed them.
• They have been largely preserved orally. The oldest available
manuscript of his work is dated around 1612, and was found by the
noted scholar K.K.Shastri from Gujarat Vidhya Sabha.
• Because of the immense popularity of his works, their language has
undergone modifications with changing times.

20. RABINDRANATH TAGORE

21. Brief Introduction Of
Tagore:
• Born: Rabindranath Thakur ,7 May 1861 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.
• Died: 7 August 1941 (aged 80).
• Occupation: Poet, short story writer, song composer, novelist, playwright, essayist, painter.
• Language: Bengali, English.
• Nationality: British India.
• Ethnicity : Bengali.
• Notable works : Gitanjali, Gora, Ghare-Baire, Jana Gana Mana, Rabindra Sangeet, Amar
Shonar Bangla (other works)
• Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
• Spouse : Mrinalini Devi (m. 1883–1902)
• Children: five children, two of whom died in childhood

22. Early life of Rabindranath
Tagore:-
• Family background
• Dwarkanath Tagore Lane,Jorasanko — the address of his family
mansion.
• Jorasanko was located in the Bengali section of north Kolkata located
near Chitpur Road.
• He was the son of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi
Debendranath Tagore had formulated the Brahmo faith.

23. His Childhood :
• Tagore, nicknamed "Rabi," was born the youngest of fifteen children .
• Tagore was also tutored at home by Hemendranath, his brother.
• Also physical tasks for example, swimming in the Ganges River, taking
long treks through hilly areas, and practicing judo and wrestling he
was also given Bengali-language lessons in anatomy, drawing, English
language geography, gymnastics, history, literature, mathematics, and
Sanskrit imparted before and after school.

24. Schooling in England (1874–1900):-
• In early October 1878, Tagore travelled to England with the intent of
becoming a barrister.
• He enrolled at University College London. However, he never
completed his degree, leaving England after staying just over a year.
• This exposure to English culture and language would later percolate
into his earlier acquaintance with Bengali musical tradition, allowing
him to create new modes of music, poetry, and drama.

25. Last Days Of Tagore:
• Rabindranath Tagore has undergone an operation called 'Supra pubic
Cystostomy ' after the operation the severe infective process took
place.
• Penicillin or other Antibiotics were not invented till then.
• After a span of painful 7 days Rabindranath left the world.
• A lecturer, a dreamer of universal brotherhood, which he was never
able to bring about between Hindus and Muslims.
• His purpose was to harmonize the mystical mind of the East with the
Western rationalism.

27. Jhaverchand Meghani

28. Works and tributes
• Jhaverchand Meghani was a noted poet, litterateur, social reformer
and freedom fighter from Gujarat.
• He is a well-known name in the field of Gujarati literature.
• Born in Chotila.
• He received many awards like ”Ranjitram Suvarna
Chandrak” and ”Mahida Paaritoshik” in literature.
• He authored more than 100 books.
• His first book was a translation work of Rabindranath Tagore's
ballad Kathaa-u-Kaahinee titled Kurbani Ni Katha (Stories of
martyrdom) which was first published in 1922.

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• He contributed widely to Gujarati folk literature.
• He went from village to village in search of folk-lores and published
them in various volumes of Saurashtra Ni Rasdhar.
• He was also the Editor of Phoolchhab Newspaper of Janmabhoomi
group.

31. Conclusion
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• Some advice for a student that will be taking world literature in the
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