Download or read book Raja Rao Man and His Works written by Shyamala A. Narayan and published by New Delhi : Sterling Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Serpent and the Rope written by Raja Rao and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the marriage of Rama, a young Brahmin doing graduate work in France, to Madeleine, an ethereal French college teacher, some six years his senior. In her eagerness to attain Eastern wisdom, Madeleine first casts her husband in the role of guru. Later, as her "saintliness" (or madness) progresses, she transcends the need for human companionship, leaving Rama free to pursue his own search for self-awareness.
Download or read book The Serpent and the Rope written by Raja Rao and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rama, a young scholar, meets Madeleine at a university in France. Though they seem to be made for each other, both alike in temperament and character, at times they are divided, a huge gulf separating them. Rama’s trip back to India for his father’s illness forcibly reminds him of the underlying contrasts between India and Europe, and of a certain conflict between them in himself. When he returns to France, Rama and Madeleine must face the problems in their marriage. Can they preserve their identities, or must one sacrifice one’s inheritance to make the relationship a success?
Download or read book Kanthapura written by Raja Rao and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raja Rao's Kanthapura is one of the finest novels to come out of mid-twentieth century India.
Download or read book The Fiction of Raja Rao written by Mittapalli Rajeshwar and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raja Rao Is One Of The Triumvirate Of The Pioneering Indian Novelists In English. His Contribution To The Growth Of The English Novel In India Is Enormous. Each One Of His Novels Is A Trendsetter. Kanthapura, For Instance, Demonstrates How The English Language Can Be Used To Tell A Typically Indian Story Without Violating The Native Speech Rhythms And His The Serpent And The Rope Gave A New Direction To The Indian Novel In English By Philosophising It. His Range And Vision Transcend All Barriers. He Used The Fictional Medium To Portray His Patriotic And Philosophical Concerns In A Masterly Way.In This Volume, An Attempt Has Been Made To Assess Raja Rao S Novels And Short Stories In Terms Of His, Philosophy, Vision, Style, Themes And Techniques. It Is Hoped That Raja Rao Scholars Across The Globe Will Find The Book Irresistible.
Download or read book Raja Rao A Study Of His Themes And Technique written by Kaushal Sharma and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raja Rao, b. 1909, Indo-English novelist.
Download or read book Meaning of India written by Raja Rao and published by India Penguin Modern Classics. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996 when he was eighty-eight years old, this selection of nearly six decades of Raja Rao's non-fiction is an audacious contemplation on the deeper significance of India. A combination of fables, journeys, discussions and meditations, The Meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilization-state. India is, above all, a metaphysic, a way of being and regarding the self and the world. Drawing on a wide range of sources-including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Buddha, Sankara, Bhartrihari, Kalidasa, Dostoevsky, Valéry, Rilke, Mann and Mallarmé-as also meetings with Gandhi, Nehru, Forster and Malraux, Rao teases out the implications of Advaita or non-dualism, which he regards as India's unique contribution to the world.
Download or read book A Critical Study of Novels of Arun Joshi Raja Rao and Sudhin N Ghose written by T. J. Abraham and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Attempts To Establish That A Search For One S Self In Indian English Fiction Distinctively Enough, Culminates In An Identification Of Individual Self With The Absolute. Three Novelists Aran Joshi, Raja Rao And Sudhin N. Ghose Who Are Considered To Be Representing Three Un¬Related Concerns Come In For Analysis. It Is Interesting To See How These Three Richly Complex Novelists Opt For A Climactic Non-Dualist Metaphysics, So Much So, That Their Protagonists In Their Autological Best Congregate To Proclaim Not Hosanna But Tat Tvam Asi, That Art Thou.
Download or read book The Cat and Shakespeare written by Raja Rao and published by South Asia Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chessmaster and His Moves written by Raja Rao and published by New Delhi : Vision Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boyfriend written by R Raj Rao and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Saturday morning in late 1992, Yudi, a forty something gay journalist, picks up a nineteen-year-old Dalit boy in the Churchgate loo. After hurried sex, he gets rid of the boy, afraid that he may be a hustler. There is nothing to set this brief encounter apart from numerous others, and Yudi returns to his bachelor's flat and sex with strangers. Months pass. But when riots break out in Mumbai, Yudi finds himself worrying about the boy from Churchgate station. He is in love. Chance brings the two together again, and this time they spend a week as a married couple in Yudi's flat, take a holiday, and meet for beer every Friday, till the boy, Milind Mahadik, disappears (he has been hired by a modelling-cum-call-boy agency owned by the Bollywood star Ajay Kapur, a closet bisexual). Desolate, Yudi finds solace in the company of the middle-aged painter Gauri, a highly-strung woman madly in love with him, whose advances he has consistently rejected. When Milind resurfaces, it is only to marry a girl chosen by his parents, for he has had it with Yudi and his kind. Yudi is heartbroken. But all is not lost: in straitened circumstances after marriage, Milind pays his gentleman friend a visit and stays the night. Henceforth, mutual need - Yudi's for love and Milind's for money - will keep bringing them together. In the final analysis, as Yudi tells Gauri - now the mistress of an ageing businessman - everything works out, and 'life is beautiful'. In his first novel, R. Raj Rao brings us a tragi-comic love story from the jumbled up heart of Mumbai.
Download or read book Word as Mantra written by Robert L. Hardgrave and published by Katha. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together some of the best and the most recent international scholarship on Raja Rao. Word as Mantra provides diverse critical as well as personal perspectives on Raja Rao the writer, the teacher, the philosopher, and the man commemorating the coming of age of Indian English writing.
Download or read book Socio cultural Aspects of Life in the Selected Novels of Raja Rao written by A. Sudhakar Rao and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raja Rao Is An Erudite Scholar And An Ennobling Indian Novelist In English. His Sensibility Is Verily Indian And Presents A Unified Vision Of Life.His Creditable Career As A Novelist, Beginning With His First Novel Kanthapura (1938), Spans Over Almost More Than Half A Century. The Novel Is A Repository Of The Eventful Phases Of Indian S Struggle For Independence On Gandhian Lines. The Novel Merits The Distinction Of Being A Paradigmatic Text With The Deft Handling Of Myth And History.The Serpent And The Rope (1960) Renowned For Its Metaphysical Moorings Is A Compendium Of The Indian Composite Cultural Complexities Interacting As They Do With The Cross Cultural And Transactional Influences. The Text Holds Out Infinite Possibilities For The Intending Readers Set Out To Undertake A Serious Study.The Cat And Shakespeare (1965), Comrade Kirillov (1976) Are Intact With The Solidity Of An Inbuilt Structural Irony And Put Up An Amazing Picture, In An Amusing Manner, Of The Piquant Situation Obtaining All Over India In The Post-Independence Period, Soon After The Euphoria Of Independence Struggle Ceased To Exercise Its Influence.The Study Being Selective, Is Confined To Socio-Cultural Aspects Of Life As Reflected In The Above Texts.
Download or read book A Companion to Indian Fiction in English written by Pier Paolo Piciucco and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After The Pioneer Works By Scholars Such As Naik, Narasimhaiah And Mukherjee, And The Thirty Years Of Silence Which Followed Their Ground-Breaking Achievements, The Companion Appears On The Scene Striving To Reinvigorate The Tradition Of Panoramic Studies Of Indian Literature In English. In The Intervening Period, Indian Fiction In English Has Become Of Paramount Importance In The Wide Context Of Postcolonial Studies: An Emergent Crop Of Novelists Belonging To The So-Called New Generation Has Colourfully Paved The Way Towards New Artistic Horizons, Re-Interpreting Western-Derived Literary Models With Inventive Approaches. Complementary To Their Role There Is The Articulate Presence Of A Host Of Indian Scholars Who In Recent Years Have Significantly Influenced The Course Of This Analysis And Have Vitally Contributed To Enlarging Its Scope Well Beyond The Original Boundaries Of Studies In Literary Criticism.The Companion, Therefore, Addresses The Exigencies Of Critics, Teachers And Students Alike All Those Who Need To Find Quick Points Of Reference In This Wide Field Of Studies By Relying On A Team Of Authoritative Collaborators And Specialists From All Over The World. Great Care Was Taken Not Only In Selecting Collaborators On The Basis Of Their Specialisation But Also Taking Into Account Their Cultural Background In Relation To The Author They Were To Discuss. The Book In Fact Has Been Organised To Have What Have Been Deemed To Be The Most Representative Authors In Indian Fiction Discussed In An Essay-Long Chapter Each, Structured To Highlight Crucial Points Such As Biographical Details, Novels And Critical Reception. Each Chapter Includes A Final Bibliography Complete With Primary And Secondary Sources, Enabling The Scholar To Have Immediate Orientation On Various Specific Topics. Finally, The Book Has An Innovative Section, With Synopses Of Novels, Planned To Allow Our Readers To Immediately Place The Authors Analysed Within The Panorama Of Indian Fiction In English. The Over 400 Synopses Included Principally Introduce Works Written By The Novelists Discussed At Length In The Previous Chapters But, Along With Them, It Is Also Possible To Find Summaries Of Works By Authors Who, Although Contributing In A Significant Way To The Development Of Forms And Techniques, Do Not Feature In The First Part.
Download or read book Indian Ethos and Western Encounter in Raja Rao s Fiction written by Dr. Madhulika Singh and published by Rajmangal Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the novels and short stories of Raja Rao in terms of the diasporic life of the author. Among the earliest of the 'second wave' Indian diaspora in the west, Raja Rao employs this unique perspective in most of his works. This is the hallmark of his writing. However, we also discuss the varied human and spiritual aspects of his work as reflecting his own life. His experiences as an Indian in a western world. But Raja Rao's writing also counts as postcolonial and postmodern far ahead of any others here or there.
Download or read book Studies in Indian English Fiction and Poetry written by Amar Nath Prasad and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swimmer Among the Stars written by Kanishk Tharoor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and NPR “A writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original, and probing mind.” —Amitav Ghosh In one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. With exuberant originality and startling vision, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital, enchanting talent.
