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 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 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 Serpent and the Rope written by Raja Rao and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 488 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 The Best of Raja Rao written by Raja Rao and published by Katha. This book was released on 1998 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of some of Raja Rao s short stories, extracts of his novels and non-fictions substantiated by an understanding of Rao s history, politics and philosophy.
Download or read book Raja Rao s Novels written by Medha Sachdev and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Book Follows Raja Rao`S Journey As A `Sadhaka` Through His Fictional World. Basing Each Novel On A Metaphysical Principle, The Author Traces Rao`S Voyage To A Nameless State A Bliss Or Union With The Divine.
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 127 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 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 written by C. D. Narasimhaiah and published by New Delhi : Arnold-Heinemann India. This book was released on 1973 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the novels and short stories of Raja Rao, b. 1909, Indo-Anglian litterateur.
Download or read book Collected Stories written by Raja Rao and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Raja Rao’s short fiction traverses the entire span of his literary career. These vibrant stories reveal his deep understanding of village life and his passion for India’s freedom struggle, and showcase his experimentation with form and style. They range from ones written by a struggling young writer to those of later years, displaying a mature, stylistic formalism.
Download or read book Raja Rao written by P. Dayal and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Presents Raja Rao S Fic¬Tional World From A Refreshingly New Perspective. It Offers A Compre¬Hensive Account Of The Philosophi¬Cal Content In His Novels And Traces The Patterns Of Interaction Between Indian Metaphysical Tradition And The Culture Of The West. Dr. Dayal Shows How Raja Rao Has Developed His Vedantic Tantric Weltenschauung Through Absorption Of Similar Motifs Propounded By Certain Prominent Western Writers. The Study Of This Twin Insemination, Dealt In Depth And Subtlety, Makes A Significant Contribution To Indo-English Scho¬Larship.
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 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 Novels of Raja Rao written by Esha Dey and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Makes An In-Depth Critical Study Of The Fiction Of Raja Rao. It Makes An Illuminating Elucidation Of All The Works Of Raja Rao, Including Kanthapura, The Serpent And The Rope, The Chessmaster And His Moves And On The Ganga Ghat And Other Stories.
Download or read book Nissim Ezekiel written by Ramachandrapurapu Raj Rao and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2000 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nissim Ezekiel was born in a Jewish family in Bombay, and with his poetic evocations of the city, gave rise to a school of poetry popularly referred to as the Bombay school. Considered by many to be the father of Indian English poetry, he has been the inspiration and guiding light for a whole generation of younger poets, including Dom Moraes, Gieve Patel, Eunice de Souza and Ranjit Hoskote. In this meticulously researched biography, R. Raj Rao traces the development of Ezekielýs poetry and life against the background of the intellectual, cultural and political climate in India over almost seven decadesýfrom the thirties to the present. We see Nissim as a curious Jewish schoolboy, a reluctant revolutionary temporarily attracted to the personality and politics of M.N. Roy, a loner longing for adventure in London, and an earnest young man writing serious metaphysical letters to his friend Solomon. The many facets of Ezekielýs versatile personalityýa bohemian responding to flower power with LSD and sex yet striving for an arranged marriage with a Jewish girl; a restless soul pursuing his interest in travel, art, literature, theatre and journalism, then settling down to a dedicated career in teachingýare skillfully brought out by Rao. The last section of the book deals with Ezekielýs increasing loneliness and his inability to recognize old friends, and finally his being diagnosed with Alzheimerýs disease in 1998. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, poems and essays, as well as discussions with the poet and interviews with friends and peers, Rao examines the desires and realities of Ezekielýs life. He brings out the contradictions that comprised it, and which, ironically, nourished his muse. Rao also provides detailed analyses of Ezekielýs poems, locating them in the context of Indian and world literature. Scholarly, exhaustive and provocative, this is the definitive biography of one of Indiaýs foremost poets.
Download or read book The Insider written by P. V. Narasimha Rao and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Novel set against the contemporary political situation in India.
