Notes: Meaning of Life and Distinguished Indian Writer

R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) is one of the most famous and distinguished Indian writer in English. He had a bonny insight into various aspects on the lives of the poor and the middle class people, peculiarly in South India. He makes the dull and common place events more than interesting and this essay is one such essay. In a paper cargoner that spanned over sixty years, Narayan received many awards and honours. His writings are full of humour. In this essay he explains the advantages of annoyance.A blessing for Mankind R. K. Narayan explains how fear conferred on mankind as a blessing by a benign providence and also talks slightly the usefulness of business to reduce difficult situations. He later narrates an incident in his rail life about the letter writing exercise, where his teacher utilize vexation as a political campaign in the specimen letter. He unendingly wondered what made his teacher to select for headache as a cause even in a specimen letter.Later he talks abo ut the drill class during his school twenty-four hourss and how students usually mentioned headache as an excuse for canceling the drill class after the school hours. One day the instructor asked all the students suffering from headache to hold their arms. For many students it raised large hope. The instructor also added that he was going to let out them round special exercise to cure their splitting headache. Not even a boy raised his arms. Thus the instructor put an end to that problem. fit of ImportanceHeadache gives the sufferer a touch of importance because it hatful be mentioned in any social gathering and is well dispatchn. No other pain can be so openly mentioned with license from punishment. Other aches sound crude and bad which can non be mentioned in free and thus headache helps us to avoid many embarrassing situation. What is disease? Indisposition is a superior expression it can be used only by exalted people. R. K. Narayan was in reality concerned about p urpose the real meaning of the word illness since it is very vague and confusing.He feels that he was not able to understand the meaning of the word indisposition save that it sounds very well in press notes or health bulletins or in messages from eminent men to gatherings to which they have been invited. It cannot be written instanter and it will sound better in the third person. A gentlemen is an eminent one, has a secretary or a deputy who can peach for him. For example a gentleman regrets his inability to attend the contact today owing to indisposition (sickness or unwillingness).People will understand and bring the statement and will not question the concerned person. R. K. Narayan wants to know the holy meaning of indisposition. Is the concerned person down with flu or malaria or cold or rheumatism (pain in joints and muscles)? He feels that the word indisposition could be used only at a particular level, not by all and if a school boy says As I am indisposed, I want to be let off, he will have his ears twisted for his intelligence beyond his age. Headache as an excuseIf we openly say that we want to avoid the situation or an important meeting, people will get angry. No one has really got courage to tell that he/she is not willing to attend a meeting or a social gathering. The world is not until now ripe for such outspokenness and frankness. So we safely use headache as an excuse. At home, headache is used as an excuse to avoid many uncomfortable situations. The mother-in-law, who is angry with the daughter-in-law, uses it to avoid food. The son, who does not want to take his wife out, gives headache as an excuse.The boy, who has skipped his homework, claims headache in order to avoid his tutor and to send him back away. The cultured existence is not to inject too deeply, but to accept the face value as verbalised by the speaker. Conclusion Headache has become a confirmed habit. practically of medicines have been produced to cure headache, whi ch people always carry with them and feels uneasy without them. Opticians give glasses to cure and relieve headache. All these things prove that mankind soft begins to believe in myths.