Doctor Akhila
Published: 1962
Language: kan
Number of pages: 256
Notes: A novel in Kannada, originally in Tamil.

First published serially in the Tamil magazine Dinamani Kadir. 
Mrs Narayanan (b. 1929) was in the process of writing another novel serially a decade later in Dinamani Kadir called 'Vaazhvai Thedi' (In Search of Life) when she perished in an Indian Airlines aircrash on the night of May 31, 1973. 
Mrs Narayanan, formerly a gifted Bharata Natyam dancer cited in all books on Indian classical dance written between the 1940s and 1960s, was the first woman to head a revenue department in the Government of India. On the night of her death she was flying from Madras (later named Chennai) to New Delhi for an official meeting in North Block, Raisinha Hill,  of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. She was Collector of Customs & Central Excise, Tamil Nadu. 
Her portrait hangs in the Conference Room of Customs House, Chennai, commissioned and paid for by her colleagues. A gold medal in her name is awarded to the best lady probationer of each new batch of customs officers to join the Indian Revenue Service.
Mrs Narayanan left behind her husband and three children.