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...also won support from a man nearly as prominent, and as much of a brooding Hamlet, as Nehru himself: Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, who spent seven years in the U.S., going to college, waiting on tables, working in the stockyards. A onetime agitator and terrorist for Indian independence who languished ten years in British jails, Narayan formerly led the Socialists and was long considered heir apparent to Nehru. Then restless, diabetic Narayan became entranced with the mission of Vinoba Bhave, the saintly ascetic who tramps about India asking landlords to make a gift of their acres to landless peasants...
...recently he has been making his political influence felt again. In a succession of speeches, Narayan urged Nehru and other top government leaders to quit office and mingle with the masses. He fiercely attacked Nehru's endless temporizing with the Communists, supported the direct-action groups in Kerala, and demanded that India do something about Red China's aggression in Tibet. Last week he called on the exiled Dalai Lama, and in the face of Nehru's indifference, urged the envoys of 14 Afro-Asian countries to unite in protest against Red China's blood actions...
Losing Hold. Narayan appears on the same platforms with Freedom Party leaders but is not, and says he will not become, a party member. His own ideas, in favor of decentralized welfare villages and against gigantism, strike many, including Nehru, as hopelessly unrealistic. But he is a powerful force in India nonetheless. Another of India's big guns, 74-year-old Rajendra Prasad, India's figurehead President, recently wrote Nehru a long letter criticizing basic government policies on unemployment, education, food and industrial development...
...GUIDE (220 pp.)-R. K. Narayan -Viking...
...tries to disabuse his followers by telling about a long-drawn-out adulterous affair in his past. Author Narayan lavishes more space on this part of his story than it may be worth, but in its course he etches three striking character portraits. The adulteress is an Indian Madame Bovary; the cuckolded husband is an academic mole blind to his wife's yearnings; and Raju himself is the perennially Circefied male. After his confession, Raju expects the villagers to renounce him. But they disbelieve him-or are wise enough to know that he is not the same...