Monthly Archives: October 2010

Bryan House on NBC News

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Richard Guzman

Helping Refugees from Around the Globe The NBC news report below features Iraqi refugee Imaad Hasan and his family.  Rick Guzman, co-founder of Bryan House, is interviewed on how these programs work to break cycles of poverty for refugee families through home … Continue reading →

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The Saint and the Sage: The Fiction of Raja Rao – Part 1

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Richard Guzman

This essay originally appeared in The Virginia Quarterly.  It  focuses on Raja Rao’s three major novels (Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, and The Cat and Shakespeare), arguing that they parallel the three stages of Vedic enlightenment—myth, philosophy, and perception—and … Continue reading →

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The Saint and the Sage: The Fiction of Raja Rao – Part 2

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Richard Guzman

This is Part 2 of a long essay that originally appeared in The Virginia Quarterly.  (Read Part 1.)  It  focuses on Raja Rao, one of India’s greatest writers, arguing that his three major novels (Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, … Continue reading →

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