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Finally, one of his colleagues walked over and asked him what the matter was. The man did not understand: he spoke only a strange tribal dialect. At length, an interpreter was found. The weeping Deputy turned out to be Muchaki Kesa, duly elected representative of 700,000 Indian citizens, and there were good reasons for his tears...
...Jungle's Choice. He was a chief of the Gonds, a tribe living in the dense jungles of the former princely state of Bastar, in central India. Among his own people, Kesa was a great man, a mighty hunter with bow & arrow, the husband of 14 dutiful wives. For years, Kesa had run the affairs of his tribe under the benevolent rule of his master, the Maharaja of Bastar. But then, in 1950, democracy came to the jungle. The new constitution abolished the rule of the maharajas and elections were to be held to send representatives to Parliament...
...tribesmen overwhelmingly elected Kesa, the Jungle's Choice. When it was time for the new representative to leave for Delhi, the Maharaja thoughtfully provided him with a secretary to guide him through the intricacies of modern life and parliamentary government. But the first thing the secretary did was to use Kesa's first-class government travel allowance for himself and put the chief into a crowded third-class compartment. In New Delhi the secretary rented two rooms in the chief's name, moved into one room himself, sublet the other, and made Kesa sleep on the veranda...
Back from the Veranda. The secretary led Kesa to Parliament, and told him where to put his thumb mark on official papers in lieu of his signature, since Kesa could not write. Otherwise, he left Kesa alone at his desk, to make of the proceedings what he could. Kesa did not understand a word of what was spoken, but as the session wore on, he began to understand something of parliamentary principle. He saw that even Prime Minister Nehru was the servant of Parliament, and could be shouted down and booed. He began to realize that Representative Kesa...
Before the ornate altar of a Buddhist temple in a Tacoma side street, Julius Goldwater, one of the 50 white Buddhist priests in the U. S., intoned: "This candi date desires ordination." Red-robed Bishop Kenju Masuyama, head of all Buddhist temples in North America, placed a kesa (stole) around the neck of yellow-robed Mrs. Pratt. Chanted she: "I take my refuge in Buddha. I take my refuge in Dharma. I take my refuge in Sangha." Thus Mrs. Pratt entered the life of Upasika Bhikum ("Utmost Perfection of Womanly Virtue"). Taking a new name, Teiun, she continued...