Word: sadhu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the austerity of his lifestyle, Prime Minister Desai is not one of the sadhu-Indian holy men who believe that it is enough to be and not to do. A shrewd political activist, he argues that "things should be done for their own sake. I accept that I will never understand reality, so I concentrate on action, dharma [duty] and commitment." Last week, at his government bungalow in New Delhi, he outlined his views of India's future in an interview with TIME Correspondents Lawrence Malkin and William Stewart. Excerpts...
...American art, beside which the hours we spent committing the Thousand Sutras to memory seem, as they say here, a "snap." Last week I went to an exhibition by a young artist from California. His name is Chris Burden, and though he is only 29, many consider him a sadhu. It is at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, a known place of refuge for distinguished fakirs like Joseph Bueys, who, unlike our own sadhus in India, wears a magnificent fur coat and chants mantras about "revolution" in order to expunge his sorrow for having flown a German airplane 30 years...
...month he will lie on a triangular platform, built high up in a corner of the gallery, and take nothing but distilled water. You see, hunger is so rare in this land that it can be profitably exhibited. I should add that, doubtless to purify his meditations, the young sadhu is not actually on show. Nobody can talk to him, or even see him, because the platform is too high. In fact there is no way of being sure he is there at all, except by believing his announced word as a holy man-but then, Americans...