Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Poetic Obituaries: "Sainthood is an inconvenient thing,"

Raja Rao wrote of Mahatma Gandhi. The essay was published in The Meaning of India in 1996, but Raja Rao's meditations on sainthood were of much older vintage. The saint, to him, was a man who "would be perfect"; the politician was a man who "would make the world wholesome, whole".

from Business Standard: Philosopher, pioneer, poet: Raja Rao (1908-2006)

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