• Bhatt Jaiminkumar M
• Dr.Prakash M Joshi

R K Narayan is one of the celebrated Writers of his contemporary era. His Story The Guide won the Sahitya Academy Award. The main objective of the paper is to discuss the mixture of Indian and western culture. India is a country where logic and belief sit side by side. The Story maybe inspired by an incident in Mysore. Here acute drought completely dried up Krishna Raja Sagar. Some religious chanting took place for rain. R.K Narayan combined the enforced sainthood with that incident. The Story has two layer of narrative. The third person narrative starts with Raju when he came out of jail. The first person narrative is Raju’s recollection of past life to Velan. The Story The Guide has myth and reality blended in the plot. The life of Raju closely follows the concept of Chaturasham. Rosie who is an educated woman still carries some Indian values and Raju’s mother carries traditional Indian rules. The two place village Mangala and town Malgudi shows two India in a single globe. While Malgudi is a commercial town with money sharks, Mangala is a place where even a poor pays homage to a spiritual man with blind faith. R.K Narayan juxtaposes both the sides into one pattern to portray real India in his Story.

Keywords— Indian, Western, Culture, Religious, Traditional, Indian Rules.

"Cultural Aspects in R.K.Narayn’s The Guide", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.c821-c828, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106386.pdf

"Cultural Aspects in R.K.Narayn’s The Guide", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppc821-c828, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106386.pdf