Famous english writer raja rao
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Raja Rao
Indian-American English writer
Raja Rao | |
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| Born | (1908-11-08)8 November 1908 Hassan, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (now in Karnataka, India) |
| Died | 8 July 2006(2006-07-08) (aged 97) Austin, Texas, USA |
| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Language | Kannada, French, English |
| Alma mater | Osmania University University of Madras, University of Montpellier Sorbonne |
| Period | 1938–1998 |
| Genre | Novel, short story, essay |
| Notable works | Kanthapura (1938) The Serpent and the Rope (1960) |
| Notable awards | |
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Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in
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Raja Rao
Raja Rao was among the first major Indian writers to cajole the English language into conveying the distinctive cadences of his native country.
— The New York Times
Raja Rao was born in 1909 in Hassan, Mysore, India. After he graduated from Madras University, he moved to the University of Montpellier in France on a scholarship. He moved to the United States in 1966, where he taught at the University of Texas at Austin until 1983, when he retired as Emeritus Professor. Rao died of heart failure in 2006.
Kanthapura
by Raja Rao
Raja Rao’s Kanthapura is one of the finest novels to come out of mid-twentieth century India. It is the story of how Gandhi’s struggle for independence from the British came to a typical village, Kanthapura, in South India. Young Moorthy, back from the city with “new ideas,” cuts across the ancient barriers of caste to unite the villagers in non-violent action––which is met with violence by landlords and police. The dramatic
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Raja Rao — the author who attempted to decipher the self through his writings
Born on 8 November 1908, into a family of Kannada Brahmins in Hassan, a district in the princely state of Mysore (now Karnataka), he credited his metaphysical temperament to his Vedantin grandfather. He attended the Montpellier University in France to study literature and the French language in 1929.
In the early 1940s, Rao was afflicted with an “emotional wavering” and he returned to India in search of answers. He visited Gandhi’s ashram and participated in the freedom struggle along with Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. His intellectual and philosophical quest came to an end only after he met his guru, Sri Atmananda, in Trivandrum, Kerala.
In 1966, he moved to Austin, Texas, where he began teaching Indian philosophy. He held the job until his retirement in 1988.
Rao had been the recipient of two prestigious awards — the Neustadt prize in 1988 and the Sahitya Akademi award in 1992. He passed away