tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post115816562856138420..comments2024-03-28T22:51:28.222+05:30Comments on The Middle Stage: Krishna Kripalani's faith and frivolityChandrahashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158984178499940162006-09-23T09:32:00.000+05:302006-09-23T09:32:00.000+05:30Sundeep - Thanks very much. That's a great resourc...Sundeep - Thanks very much. That's a great resource that I knew nothing of. I'll be doing lots of searches on it now.Chandrahashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158952999998137562006-09-23T00:53:00.000+05:302006-09-23T00:53:00.000+05:30Very nice. For people crazy enough to read books o...Very nice. <BR/><BR/>For people crazy enough to read books online, Faith and Frivolity is at:<BR/><BR/>http://www.dli.cdacnoida.in/dL.aspx?BookId=14473<BR/><BR/>The Digital Library of India (www.dli.cdacnoida.in) might have old/out of print/not easily available books that someone who knows their titles/authors can look up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158729873207405252006-09-20T10:54:00.000+05:302006-09-20T10:54:00.000+05:30good stuff hash-mlawngood stuff hash<BR/><BR/>-mlawnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158692212123712832006-09-20T00:26:00.000+05:302006-09-20T00:26:00.000+05:30What 'bout S.Gopal's biography of Nehru. I have no...What 'bout S.Gopal's biography of Nehru. I have not read it and I would love to read some comments on the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158566290171760872006-09-18T13:28:00.000+05:302006-09-18T13:28:00.000+05:30Space Bar: Epigrammatic balance - that's just the ...Space Bar: Epigrammatic balance - that's just the phrase I was looking for. <BR/><BR/>I think Kripalani uses the word faith in a loose sense, as faith in ideas and people. I imagine he'd have many amusing things to say about our New Age gurus.<BR/><BR/>Anirudh: I'm no expert, but I imagine that in two weeks concentrated reading you or I would want to go through Frank Moraes's excellent biography of Nehru, another political biography by Michael Brecher, the account of Nehru by the Australian diplomat Walter Crocker, a sheaf of essays and articles by Ram Guha including one long piece in the Economic and Political Weekly last year, and Sunil Khilnani's *The Idea of India*. I'm sure there are at least three dozen other good books on the subject of Nehru's life, work and ideas.Chandrahashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158501137490294942006-09-17T19:22:00.000+05:302006-09-17T19:22:00.000+05:30Suggest some?Suggest some?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158468723013295092006-09-17T10:22:00.000+05:302006-09-17T10:22:00.000+05:30What a wonderful two paragraphs! Nobody knows how ...What a wonderful two paragraphs! Nobody knows how to write with epigrammatic balance anymore. Such a pleasure to read.<BR/><BR/>On another note, I was wondering why the book was called <B>Faith and Frivolity</B>, since nothing you've said about the division of the book into its three sections appears to have anything to do with faith. Is there an explanation? Or is the matter of faith a continuous thread through the book?<BR/><BR/>Apropos of which, Kriplani says, "but faith itself may become oppressive if not occasionally relieved by frivolity" -- I wonder what he's have to say to our New Age gurus who are all frivolity and no oppression!Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158305074387237182006-09-15T12:54:00.000+05:302006-09-15T12:54:00.000+05:30Anirudh - I can't say I agree with that. There may...Anirudh - I can't say I agree with that. There may be more good books about Nehru than on any other Indian personality other than Gandhi.<BR/><BR/>Swar - Yes, the book you are thinking of is the very good biography by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson.Chandrahashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483080477755487202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158241112444538782006-09-14T19:08:00.000+05:302006-09-14T19:08:00.000+05:30Much as I loathe to wear my Camus' prose addiction...Much as I loathe to wear my Camus' prose addiction on my sleeve, Kripalani's remark on married men reminds me of this one by the Algerian-born: "If I am to believe one of my friends, a man always has two characters: his own, and the one his wife thinks he has." <BR/><BR/>I remember that a biography of Tagore I read long time ago in school dwelt unusually on the different forms and levels of relationship that Tagore shared with the women in his life. Now, I can't recollect whether it was Krishna Kripalani's or Krishna Dutta's. <BR/><BR/>"empty hyperbole and gratuitous phrasemaking" is benign compared to misleading facts in blurbs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9082470.post-1158214504878419522006-09-14T11:45:00.000+05:302006-09-14T11:45:00.000+05:30Sounds interesting. Maybe through this book, I can...Sounds interesting. Maybe through this book, I can finally learn something about Nehru. I have not read much writing on him since most of it is very dull.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com