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...irresponsible leprechauns ever to crawl out of a hollow tree-life would have been much duller without them. Jack and I had a lot in common (possibly the less admirable traits). . . . We were both agreeably astonished that each of us was a friend and admirer of Jeddu Krishnamurti or Krishna...
Sunk to the Eyebrows. Indian mystic Krishna "had been touted ... as an 'untouchable,' so much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
...Mohandas Gandhi after reading a book about him. She was Madeline Slade, daughter of British Admiral Sir Edmond Slade. She left England to join Gandhi, became his personal attendant, took the name of Miraben (Sister Mira) from the Rajput Princess Mira who abandoned all to follow the Hindu god Krishna. Miraben was jailed twice for her part in the civil disobedience movement...
Strained, tired, idealistic Jawaharlal carried on in Gandhi's dogged war of attrition against the British Empire. When he and Gandhi were again arrested in 1932, Krishna, Swarup, and their delicate, aged mother took to the hustings. The two sisters were promptly clapped into jail for a year apiece; their mother shortly followed. True to Nehru tradition, Krishna found prison life "not pleasant" but "a great experience...
Gandhi's Heir. Written in 1942-43 while Krishna waited for her husband to complete a one-year stretch, With No Regrets is no guide to the tortuous complexities of Indian politics. Nor is it even Gandhi propaganda. British imperialists may read it without risk of apoplexy. But for most westerners, these gentle reminiscences will help to bring alive the sensitive, ascetic man of dreams and action who will probably inherit Gandhi's sainted khadi during modern India's most crucial years...