Word: datta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cuff guess is that Eliot was alluding obscurely to cockney slang or to a vaudeville routine. Another speculation is that this was a working subtitle expressing Eliot's preoccupation with authority: one of the main theological theorems of The Waste Land is that God, who utters words like datta (give) and shantih (the peace that passes all understanding), speaks neither sense nor English but, like men, in many voices and even in bad grammar...
Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, assistant editor of The Statesman, suggested that the existing power split between the traditionalists and Anglo-Indians may diminish the influence of Nehru's successor. Because Shastri embraces Indian tradition, he is not unanimously supported by the rest of the government and party. Presently, the stronger influence upon the Indian people decidedly is Western, rather than traditional: to be Westernized is a status symbol...
...Ramachandran, a member of the All India Congress, will participate this Wednesday in the first of six International Seminars to be held throughout the summer. Gafoor Noorani, an advocate of the Bombay High Court, and Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, assistant editor of The Statesman, will join Ramachandran in evaluating "India after Nehru" in Burr...