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raja rao (1908-2006)
"Writing is my dharma"
Hassan, in the state of Mysore in south India (now in Karnataka)
Degree from Madras University
He left India for Europe
He studied at Montpellier and the Sorbonne
1931 he married a French academic, Camille Mouly [The Serpent and the Rope, 1960]
1931-32 Jaya Karnataka
1940s Tomorrow
“while Anand continuous to explore in each of his novels man’s relationship to society, Rao progresses from the humanistic stand point to the spiritual and the metaphysical, to man’s relationship to the ultimate reality according to the vedantic metaphysical concept” (p.87)
1946 member of the Sri Vidya Samiti
From 1966 to 1980 he teaches Indian philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin
1988 he received the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature
• Kanthapura, 1938
• Changing India, 1939 (ed., with I. Singh)
• The Cow of the Barricades, and Other Stories, 1947
• Whither India, 1948 (with I. Singh)
• The Serpent and the Rope, 1960
• The Cat and Shakespeare, 1965
• Comrade Kirilov, 1976
• The Policeman and the Rose, 1978
• The Chessmaster and His Moves, 1988
• On the Ganga Ghat, 1993
• The Meaning of India, 1996
• Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi, 1998
• The Best of Raja Rao, 1998
"I am no scholar. I am a creative writer. I love to play with ideas. It is like a chess game with horses, elephants, chamberlains and kings which might fight with one another. The game is not for winning. It is for rasa-delight."
Raja Rao died of heart failure at 97 on July 8, 2006.
