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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

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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

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World Writing: Raja Rao

Raja Rao One of India’s most distinguished writers, Raja Rao (1908-2006) won his country’s highest literary prizes and was also a Nobel Prize nominee.  He wrote three major novels: Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, and The Cat and Shakespeare, … Continue reading

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