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...BHASKARA RAO New York City
...synopsis, this novel suggests just one more Yul Brynner movie. In detail, it is something quite different: a wildly funny satire. Brynner's part is taken by the Rao Jagnabad, a glitteringly bejeweled, savagely personable hunter-princeling known as the Nine-Tiger Man. When the Sepoy Mutiny erupts in Delhi, the English dispatch their women to the Rao's palace, confident that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate...
...SHAKESPEARE by Raja Rao. 117 pages. Macmillan...
...sudden twist and shook itself" and led her right back to the door. As Alice learned, the only way in is to go blithely in the opposite direction. The reader who does the same may get some fun and a certain impalpable sense of enlightenment from Indian Author Raja Rao's charming, puzzling tale. The simple surface of the book is the story of a clerk in an Indian village near the sea who wants only to build himself a house and live with his gentle mistress-and of his neighbor, Govindan Nair, who helps him. Beneath that surface...
...average nightclub carouser, having come to see some skin, finds himself involved in a subtle spoof, and there are a few moments when he cannot be absolutely sure that he himself is not being mocked. Significantly, the heaviest and most grateful applause of the evening is given to Rao, an Indian girl whose whole act consists of clever finger shadows of animals and images of Khrushchev, Nehru and De Gaulle...