Question: Are Thomas Friedman and Raja Rao both writers?

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Moorthy: Moorthy is the protagonist of Raja Rao's novel "Kanthapura", which records the influence of Mahatma Gandhi's ideals on Kanthapura, a remote fictional village in South India, during the years of the Indian independence movement.  It has been suggested that Moorthy is a stand-in for Rao himself.

Raja Rao: Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian 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 1964.  For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988.  Rao's wide-ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature as a whole.

Thomas Friedman: Thomas Loren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist and author.  He is a three time Pulitzer Prize winner.

Mulk Raj Anand: Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.  One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership.  Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of being classic works of modern Indian English literature, noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and their analyses of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.  He is also notable for being among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English and was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.

Echo Hill Ranch: Echo Hill Ranch is a summer ranch camp of about 400 acres (1.6 km²) in the Texas Hill Country.  The ranch was founded in 1953 by Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie Samet Friedman.  It is located south of Kerrville near Medina.  Echo Hill was founded as a noncompetitive, child-centered ranch camp for boys and girls ages 6–14.  Echo Hill Ranch is the current residence of Texas musician/writer/gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman.  July 24, 2013 the camp announced via their Facebook page that it would not reopen for summer of 2014.

Indian English literature: Indian English Literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India.  Its early history began with the works of Michael Madhusudan Dutt followed by R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao who contributed to Indian fiction in the 1930s.  It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora, such as V. S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kovid Gupta, Agha Shahid Ali, Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie, who are of Indian descent.

Varadaraja V. Raman: Varadaraja V. Raman (born May 28, 1932) is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology.  He has lectured and written Indian heritage and culture and authored numerous books, book reviews and articles on science and religion.  He is considered expert in the Hindu religion, espectially as how it relates to modern science.  In 2005 he was elected Senior Fellow of the Metanexus Institute.  In 2006 he was the recipient of the Raja Rao Award which recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the literature of the South Asian Diaspora.  On May 18, 2007, Navya Shastra, a reformist Hindu organization, conferred on him the title Acharya Vidyasagar in recognition of his contributions to Hinduism.

Kadan Vaangi Kalyaanam: Rao Bahadur Ramadasu (T. S. Balaiah) borrows from all and sundry, and spends relentlessly.  Zamindar Diwan Bahadur Mukunda Rao (S. V. Ranga Rao) is an innocent simpleton, and a good man.  He is on the quest for the perfect match for his granddaughter Manjari (Savitri).  Ramadasu wants his London-returned son, Dr. Raghu (T. R. Ramachandran) to marry Manjari and take all of Mukunda Rao's assets.  Raghu is married to Leela (Jamuna), who is pretending to be a maid-servant and works in Raghu's home.  Manjari is in love with Raja (Gemini Ganesan), Leela's brother, who reciprocates and is jailed for being a revolutionary and a part of the independence struggle.  Raja's released from jail, and to set the affairs straight and teach Ramadasu a lesson, he pretends to be Bonkulamarri Raja, a big-time Zamindar and stays in Mukunda Rao's home, who now wants Raja to marry Manjari.  Raghu gets involved in the drama without anyone's invite or knowledge, thus producing situational humor by posing as a prospective groom for Manjari and flirting with his maid/wife much to his father's horror.  Confusion and comedy follow, while in the end Ramadasu learns his lesson and all the pairs are united.

Curiosity quotient: Curiosity quotient is a term put forth by author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman as part of an illustrative formula to explain how individuals can be powerfully motivated to learn about a personally interesting subject, whether or not they possess a particularly high intelligence quotient (IQ).  The non-mathematical and fictitious formula is CQ + PQ > IQ; where CQ is "curiosity quotient" and PQ is "passion quotient."  Thomas Friedman states that when curiosity is paired with passion in the exploration of a subject of interest, an individual may be able to acquire an amount of knowledge comparable that of a person who is exceptionally intelligent, because of the vast amount of information resources available through the Internet.

Friedman Unit: The Friedman Unit, or simply Friedman, is a tongue-in-cheek neologism.  One Friedman Unit is equal to six months, specifically the "next six months", a period repeatedly declared by "New York Times" columnist Thomas Friedman to be the most critical of the then-ongoing Iraq War even though such pronouncements extended back over two and a half years.

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