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PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The Publishers acknowledge
their indebtedness to the Editors of The Bombay Chronicle Weekly, The All
India Weekly and The Advent in whose pages the essays included in
this volume have already appeared—mostly .in a shorter form.
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ART-PRINCIPLES
FOR INDIA
The Marxist Attitude in the Balance
There was recently a burst of tanks
and bombers in newspaper columns against an art-critic who ventured to
challenge Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's pronouncement some months ago on the
essence and aim of art. and aim of
art. I do not deny that the said artcritic's statement was lacking in
clearness and completeness. Bur was he absolutely off the right line?
Was the core of his contention really open to fatal attack?
To understand that
core we must look clearly at Nehru's own thought. Nehru seems to have
had five principles in mind. First, art should not be cut off from life.
Second, it
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WAS THIS THE
ENLIGHTENED ONE?
Modern Misconceptions about Buddha
The other day I came across an article
on Buddha by an Indian writer. I took it up with keen interest,
wondering how it would expound Buddha's Nirvana in lucid journalese. It
made a good story, but to my disappointment I found that the author got
over the Gordian knot of Nirvana by pretending there was no knot at all.
To be a countryman of the
great Gautama and yet to quote H.G.Wells on Buddhism—this was beyond belief. How
could H.G.Wells probe into the soul of a man who would have regarded the seer of
the outer shape of things-to-come as totally ignorant of the inner shape o
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CAN INDIANS WRITE
ENGLISH POETRY?
The Indian Mind and the English Language
W. B. YEATS is said to have " pooh-poohed"
the idea that an Indian could write English poetry of a high order. It
is indeed true that the subtle inwardness one feels towards one's
mother-tongue is likely to be missing .when an Indian attempts to
express himself in English. But is it impossible to have it? And is it
advisable always for us to fall back upon our vernaculars and leave
English to Irishmen like Yeats?
Reading most of the verse
turned out by English-speaking Indians we are almost persuaded that we shall
never succeed in reaching a high standard. But h
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THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
A Vision of his "Actual" and his "Potential"
PANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru rode on horseback to meet the Cabinet Mission.
He had gone in the same way to confer with Lord Wavell a year or so
earlier. Gandhi came in a rickshaw; so too did Maulana Abu! Kalam Azad.
But Nehru was astride a dappled horse. When I saw him thus
in the
Indian News Parade
I was struck with the significance of the
act.
Here was something
princely—an old-world nobility made its appearance. Here also was something
warriorlike—an adventurous spirit fared forth. Here, again, was something
romantic—a dreamer rose above humdrumne
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THE WORLD-LEADER OF
TOMORROW
Sri Aurobindo through a Biographer's Eyes
"ETERNITY !·how learnt I that strange word?" asks Laurence Binyon in a
poem. The question might more appropriately have been put by a young
Bengali to himself during his student days in
England with his two elder brothers, one of whom was an intimate friend
of Laurence Binyon. For this young Bengali was caught in puzzling
psychological cross-currents. Educated in England from early boyhood, he
was as completely Westernised as any Indian could be-Westernised not
only in the sense that the whole world of European culture, ancient, me
diaevaland modern, became part of him; b
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THE INSPIRATION OF
SAROJINI NAIDU
A Defence against Colour-blind
and Tone-deaf
"Debunkers"
"Debunking" is the favourite sport of our time
—often a healthy necessary sport; but futile and thankless is the attempt to
"debunk" skylarks and nightingales and Sarojini Naidu! Critics have begun to
find her work void of true emotion; they see no real creative drive in it. Mere
colour, vague imagery, tinsel sentiment—these sum her up in their view. The sole
compliment they pay her is that she has an attractive command over language and
a consummate skill in poetic form. That is, her technique is impressive but the
inspiration is no more than fa
EVOLVING INDIA
ESSAYS ON CULTURAL ISSUES
K. D. SETHNA
HIND KITABS LIMITED
PUBLISHERS ; BOMBAY
First Published in November 1947
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Pondicherry. Published by V. Kulkarni, Hind
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