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...took vows of silence and celibacy, was jailed several times by the British (once along with Nehru), set up a camp on the banks of the River Ganges to study the Hindu epics, and wrote the first 60 volumes of a 180-volume biography of the Hindu god Krishna. One day last October he cried out: "He nath Narayan!" (meaning, "Oh, Lord God," the holy man's only departure from silence). An attendant brought him his Shaeffer fountain pen and paper. He wrote: "If today I participate in an election, it's because my innermost voice bids...
Winding up a coast-to-coast lecture tour with her husband, Authoress Mrs. Krishna Hutheesing, younger sister of India's Prime Minister Nehru, said in Manhattan that the kumkum, the spot of color worn in the center of the forehead by Indian women, is not a caste mark. "It's a sign that one is feeling gay or festive-we put it on as part of our make...
Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted...
...part of the U.N. Council's Yard efforts, including a discussion of freedom of the press and information by widely known newspaper editors. Last year this organization sponsored speeches here by Sir Alexander Cadogan, British delegate to the Security Council; Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, and V. K. Krishna Menon, India's foreign affairs advisor to Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister and head of that nation's delegation to the U. N. General Assembly, and V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the same gathering, spoke at the University last term under the Council's sponsorship...