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Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963. [1]
Raja Rao (born November 8, 1908, Hassan, Mysore [now Karnataka], India—died July 8, 2006, Austin, Texas, U.S.) was an author who was among the most significant Indian novelists writing in English during the middle decades of the 20th century. Descended from a distinguished Brahman family in southern India, Rao studied English at Nizam College ...
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Jun 29, 2020 · An understanding of Raja Rao’s (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) art is enhanced by a contextualization of his novels. Although Rao admitted to several Western influences, his work is best understood as a part of the Indian tradition. Rao regarded literature as Sadhana, or spiritual discipline; for him, writing was a consequence of….
Raja Rao (row), with Mulk Raj Anand and R. K. Narayan, is considered one of the most important twentieth century Indo-English novelists. The eldest in a Brahman family of nine children, he was ...
Nov 3, 2017 · Raja Rao, however, had different traits than these two and he also played an important role with his pen in the independence movement of India. A rare author who, no doubt, wrote in English but kept his traditional ethos alive! Born in 1908 in Mysore, Raja Rao was filled with nationalistic feelings in spite of his foreign alma-mater.
Raja Rao: The Chessmaster and His Moves. By EDWIN THUMBOO Raja Rao's considerable configurations of ideas relating to the general - i.e., achievement derives social, political, philosophical, and other - roots and substantially from the the literary hinterland of the novel, play, or poem, to uniquely Indian spirit and thrust of his work ...
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Raja Rao: The Twice-Born Novelist Harish Trivedi Indian fiction in English is famously called the "twice-born" fiction, a term often (mis)understood to mean a high-caste, privileged, Brahminical literature. If this is indeed so, then it was Raja Rao who performed for it the sacred-thread ceremony, thus conducting a ritual of shuddhi
