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Editors' Note
The present work accompanies the main festschrift
The following letter of mine addressed to Sri K.D. Sethna on July 1, '94 will sufficiently explain to the readers the story behind the genesis of this booklet. Amal-da, Bonjour\ A couple of weeks back Nirod-da, as one of the editors of a forthcoming publication to be brought out on your ninetieth birthday that falls on November 25, '94, asked me to write an article on you. I readily agreed. At first I thought of composing a piece of three or four pages. But very soon a new idea dawned on me and I gladly yielded to my inspiration. I chose a very large comprehensive frame for my composition and did not bother about the number of pages the piece was going to cover. The result is that in its final shape my article on "The Wonder That is K. D. S." has come to twenty-seven pages of typescript. Amal-da, the process of writing this essay has afforded me great satisfaction. At the same time I have derived immense psychological benefit from a fresh study of your writings. But before presenting my piece of writing to the editors, I strongly felt like first showing it to you. Amal-da, please go through the entire piece in a dispassionate and impersonal way and give me your free, frank and forthright opinion about how you evaluate it. I know you are awfully busy. Yet I entreat you to do this favour to your younger brother and fellow-pilgrim on the Path. Yours affectionately JUGAL After having perused my essay K. D. S. alias Amal Kiran made the following comment for which I remain profoundly grateful to him. Jugal, It is a splendid piece of work — wide-sweeping yet minutely attentive and penned with vividness and verve. I marvel at the range of your references and the apt way you have chosen your quotations. I could not help reading the whole thing at one stretch. You made that familiar old fellow KDS stunningly new even to himself. AMAL " 3.7.94 I have no words to express my gratitude to the editors for having arranged for the publication of this booklet as my humble but sincere birthday tribute to Amal Kiran.
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