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   Ross Clark to All   
   Raja Rao died (8-7-2006)   
   08 Jul 24 22:51:50   
   
   From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Indian-American novelist and metaphysician (born Mysore 1908)   
      
   In _Kanthapura_ (1938) he writes:   
      
   "...English is not really an alien language to us. It is the language of   
   our intellectual make-up, like Sanskrit or Persian was before, but not   
   of our emotional make-up....We cannot write like the English. We should   
   not...Our method of expression therefore has to be a dialect which will   
   some day prove to be as distinctive and colorful as the Irish or the   
   American."   
   A vision of a literary Indian English.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Rao   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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