RK Narayan is content generally in skimming lightly on the stature of life. He takes life for whatever it is worth, presents those familiar scenes which fascinate or delight him, rarely bothering to touch its deeper and darker aspects. Brought up in the journalistic tradition, he is ever on the lookout for a “story” in whatever he sees or whoever to meets. His stories are stubble with incomputable familiar Indian faces. This reveal of his stories, connect with the fact that he narrate his characters with a comic touch, through a language normally attractive and captivating, has obtain for him a notability rarely enjoyed by the other Indian short story writers in English. Keywords: narrative techniques, epics and mythology, sharply drawn characters etc.