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...during the winter months. He replaces Bob Donovan, Harvard's Director of Sports Promotions. The new captains are junior Jim Dales and Senior Spence Fitzgibbons, who bring diametrically opposed attitudes to the game. Dales has never taken a lesson while Fitzgibbons is a golfing hypochondriac who regularly consults golfing gurus around the world...
Khan vehemently opposes the various gurus and Indian musicians who come to the U.S. to commercially package their cults and art. His normally soft voice rises indignantly at the idea that they misrepresent Hindy culture in America. He sees Americans as too innocent; in their desire to find spiritual fulfillment in an alienating society, they are susceptible to movements such as the Hare Krishnas and Guru Maharaji...
Despite what many people think, not everyone in India is deeply religious--there are a fair number of hypocritical gurus there as well. But it is easier to live a meditative life there than in the U.S.; one has to, because the irremediable poverty demands an escape from it. Hearing Indian music night and day enriches the practice of it. America, with its diversity of cultures, just does not lend itself to the pursuit of pure Indian music...
...more gig. "But there are no more gigs for you," says the equally-strange woman in black as she pulls him down. Maybe the black-jacketed figure is Phil Ochs. Estranged from his wife, his children in school in Vermont, beset by space-shot gurus like Ginsburg, Mr. Tambourine Man must sit in Malibu and wonder the same thing
Sibling rivalry between spiritual leaders? Well yes, between the Maharaj Ji, a.k.a. Perfect Master, and his eldest brother, Shri Satyapal Ji (Truth Incarnate). In India they are often regarded as export gurus aimed at the Western market, but in the U.S. the baby-faced Maharaj Ji, now 20, was once worshipped as the Lord of the Universe by 50,000 or so devotees of the Divine Light Mission. In 1975 his mother, Mataji, disapproving of his playboy ways and his marriage to an airline stewardess, deposed him in favor of his brother. Since then the name of the organization...