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...Sunday morning, June 22, he flew the plane with a test pilot at the Delhi Flying Club. In the afternoon he took it on a series of joyrides with his wife Maneka, his mother's personal secretary R.K. Dhawan and the family's special guru, Dhirendra Brahmachari...
TIME, Jan. 28, quotes Holy Man Brahmachari on U.S. marriages: "An Indian student, visiting an American cemetery, found a young woman seated by the side of the tomb, fanning it with her hand . . . [She explained] 'My husband and I loved each other, but when he died he made me promise that I would not remarry so long as his tomb was wet. I am fanning it so that it will become dry quickly and I can marry my current sweetheart...
...Brahmachari . . . is perhaps familiar with English literature, or with someone who knows the writings of Oliver Goldsmith. The story is told in the 18th letter of Lien Chi Altangi, Goldsmith's oriental nom de plume for his series of satirical attacks on English customs, Citizen of the World...
...Holy Man Brahmachari will get out from behind his beard long enough to read Charles Pettit's Elegant Infidelities of Madam Li Pet Fou (Horace Liveright; 1928), he will find the tale about fanning a deceased husband's grave told in a much more elegant fashion...
...Only Brahmachari knows where he got his version of the story and, having taken a vow of silence, he isn't talking...