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...successful had the movement been that the three most popular and influential men in India gathered at Sarvodayapuri. First, there was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Second, there was Vinoba Bhave himself. Third, there was Nehru's chief political rival, tall (6 ft.) Jaya Prakash Narayan, the founder and leader of India's Socialist Party. A fascinating man about whom the rest of the world knows little. Narayan in his youth was a violent Marxist and anti-British revolutionary, and in his middle age is a man of peace and religion and a forthright antiCommunist...
...FINANCIAL EXPERT (I 78 pp.)-R. K. Narayan - Michigan State College Press...
...they were usually outsiders observing from a distance. In recent years, the Indians have been raising novelists of their own, such as G. V. (for Govindas Vishnoodas) Desani, author of the high-comic All About H. Hatterr (TIME, June 18, 1951). Now comes R. K. (for Rasi-puram Krishnaswami) Narayan, a gently satirical fellow and a writer of substance. At 45, Narayan has published half a dozen novels and scores of stories, forming a miniature comedie humaine of modern India...
...Novelist Narayan tells his story with an abundance of good nature. Let the philosophers of history ponder the formal gravities of the meeting of East and West, he seems to be saying. For a man with a novelist's eye, there is also plenty of warmhearted comedy in the situation...
...last the burial chamber was opened, and Disciple Wamana entered alone with gifts of flowers, fruit, coins, and ghi (melted butter) with which to massage the yogi. The crowd waited tensely. Wamana emerged alone, his face the color of ashes. The pit, he said, was hot as a furnace; Narayan thought it better not to come out until the following day. The crowd roared with disapproval, and Wamana went back to the pit. Soon he emerged again, this time to confess the truth. Narayan, he wailed, was dead...