Word: jiddu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jiddu, Indian locality where he was born "30 or 35 years...
...combined talent of six despairing Boston newspaper men, aided by a CRIMSON reporter, failed to derail the philosophical train of Jiddu Krishnamurti's thought and elicit from him much specific comment on the troubled land of his birth. In his suite at the Ritz-Carlton the well-known spiritual teacher and Y. Prasad, his Indian aide, tallsed freely and in perfect English of the characteristics of the ideal man of the future, but felt that there was not sufficient evidence at hand on which to base a comment on the Russian religious situation, and expressed more concern for the spiritual...
...Although Jiddu refuses to talk on temporal matters, the recent visit of the religious leader to Boston stimulates discussion on the pending crisis in India as well as on the whole question of self-government. India is at the rebellion point; but it is a rebellion, typically oriental, that instead of rising to a boil congeals to passive and all-expanding ice. It is a rebellion typically modern in that it aims to force the English out of the government by forcing them out of business. Above all it is a rebellion intensified by the personality of Mahatma Gandhi with...