Tag Archives: Nationalism
Remembering London – Part 4: Nationalism and Cheese
At the northeast end of Hyde Park is Speakers’ Corner where on Sunday afternoons an assortment of crazies and true believers hold forth in exercises of free speech. The British cherish these as symbols of their democracy, even as they … Continue reading
The Saint and the Sage: The Fiction of Raja Rao – Part 1
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
The Saint and the Sage: The Fiction of Raja Rao – Part 2
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