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After nearly ten years of marriage, the wife of a Bombay textile millionaire, Bhagvandas Chunilal Mehta, asked for a legal separation. She testified that Mehta beat her, locked up her medicines and used insulting language. Then Mehta took the stand with his side of the story. His wife had become a disciple of Krishnamurti. She had heard him call the sacred Hindu wedding verses "bunkum and nonsense." At another lecture Krishnamurti said to the males in the audience: "Do you know what your relationship with your wife is? We all know this relationship-sex nagging, bullying, dominating, the superficial responses...
...result of listening to such teaching, Mrs. Mehta's attitude toward her husband had changed sharply. "Before, she was always strong, but good," said Mehta. "Afterwards . . . she became aggressive. I trusted my wife completely, but I did not know what Krishnamurti was up to . . . I had come to the conclusion that under the guise of teaching, Krishnamurti was running after my wife...
Last month, austere, frugal Premier Jivraj Mehta (friend and personal physician to the late Mohandas Gandhi) wrote his sovereign a letter. "Instead of spending time and money on rearing horses and running races . . . Your Highness [should] have looked after the proper administration of the state ... I need not say more. It is only the blind that ignores the signs and portents." The Maharaja went to the U.S. to buy some more horses. Last week, the Baroda legislature let go. "His frequent and prolonged absence from the state resulting in complete neglect of his duties," said a majority resolution...
...week's singles championship, were some 60 players-about 25 of them with foreign accents. England had sent Tony Mottram and Derrick Barton. France's Robert Abdesselam, Czechoslovakia's outstanding southpaw Jaroslav Drobny were there, along with India's entire Davis Cup team (Misra, Mohan & Mehta) and Sweden's and Belgium's best...
...historic meeting with Gandhi on Malabar Hill in 1944 ended in an impasse. Even Gandhi's healer, Dinshaw Mehta, who massaged Jinnah for two hours daily during the meetings, could not rub out the wrinkles of obstinacy that made the skinny Moslem uncompromisingly demand Pakistan, made the skinny Hindu as uncompromisingly demand a unified India, with the Pakistan issue postponed until after independence...