Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School of Design in Robinson Hall is an exhibition of sketches and watercolors by Eliot F. Noyes '32. Most of the paintings were done in Iran at Persepolis--a group of palaces and terrace built by Darius and Xerxes about 500 B.C. The collection also includes subjects from Kashmir, India, Iraq, and Egypt. The paintings are watercolors of landscapes and mosques, and bazaar and native village scenes. They are free impressionistic pictures, boldly handled with lively colors...
Eventually, in her own way and in her own time, India will return to the dictatorship of saints and sages...
Commissioned to write a 100,000-word book on India, Yeats-Brown gave himself six months to do it in, 20,000 miles by airplane, elephant, train, car, horse to gather his impressions. At the outset he confessed himself stumped by India's size (350,000,000 pop.), unwilling to guess the answers to such problems as India's 24,000 births a day (world's highest birth rate, which has increased the population, in spite of the world's highest death rate, 34,000,000 in the last decade), five or six million beggars...
...called on Gandhi and many another of India's great and near-great. But the high point of his journey was at Trivandrum, where he met one Chidambaram Swami, who became his spiritual teacher, put him to work practising yoga in earnest. The pupil gives all the details of his training - breathing exercises, meditations, calisthenics - and observes that one of the prime necessities to spiritual advancement is a well-functioning bowel...
...Christian, Author Yeats-Brown says darkly: "I have gone too far along the path of the Vedanta to turn back now, and must follow it to its end, where I see a Cross." He admits he has not yet become an expert in the spiritual life, but he left India so full of grateful respect that his view of her future is very different from most of his compatriots': "India can manage her own affairs, given the right men in the right place...