The speaker of a poem addressed to this author describes his own psychological maladies and says "If I am sick, there is no proof whatsoever that man is a healthy creature." One of this author's novels is about Suzanne Chantereux, a married woman who enchants the mathematician Sivarama Sastri. He wrote a biography of Gandhi called Great Indian Way. His unpublished manuscripts include the 750-page The Daughter of the Mountain, which is the second novel in a projected trilogy beginning with The Chessmaster and His Moves. This author of Comrade Kirillov wrote about Govinda Nair's mentorship of Ramakrishna Pai in The Cat and Shakespeare, which he considers to be the conclusion to a semi-autobiographical work about Ramaswany's quest for salvation. For 10 points, name this author of The Serpent 
The speaker of a poem addressed to this author describes his own psychological maladies and says "If I am sick, there is no proof whatsoever that man is a healthy creature." One of this author's novels is about Suzanne Chantereux, a married woman who enchants the mathematician Sivarama Sastri. He wrote a biography of Gandhi called Great Indian Way. His unpublished manuscripts include the 750-page The Daughter of the Mountain, which is the second novel in a projected trilogy beginning with The Chessmaster and His Moves. This author of Comrade Kirillov wrote about Govinda Nair's mentorship of Ramakrishna Pai in The Cat and Shakespeare, which he considers to be the conclusion to a semi-autobiographical work about Ramaswany's quest for salvation. For 10 points, name this author of The Serpent and the Rope.
The speaker of a poem addressed to this author describes his own psychological maladies and says "If I am sick, there is no proof whatsoever that man is a healthy creature.
Raja Rao