Word: kumar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perera was the result of a tug of war within the ruling clan. In this reading, Mrs. Bandaranaike used Perera's remark as an excuse to move away from the radical left-represented by her daughter Sunethra, who is coordinating secretary to the Prime Minister, her husband Kumar and sister Chandrika-and in the direction of her more conservative son Anura, 27, who has recently become chief organizer of the party's powerful Youth League. The shift to the right is seen as part of an emergency effort to shore up the country's failing economy...
...require great discipline and concentration to try similarly to gain nirvana, that ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated and compassion and wisdom are attained. "Transcendental Meditation does not reach the stage of giving you awareness of your real self," complains Dr. Kumar Pal, secretary of the Yoga Institute of Psychology and Physical Therapy in New Delhi. "It is merely a technique, a very limited technique, and it is not yogic because it lacks the prerequisites of yogic meditation. A moral life is the sine qua non of yoga practice. The students...
...replayed as conscience chews at guilt in the minds of several British characters who serve as Scott's observers. One incident is central and obsessive. In 1942, at a shabby spot in Ranpur called the Bibighar Gardens, a young Englishwoman named Daphne Manners and her Indian lover, Hari Kumar, are beaten by a gang of six Indians drunk on illegal homemade liquor...
Perversion and Prejudice. An English policeman named Merrick, who also had his eye on Daphne, arrests six Indians and Kumar. A jealous Merrick assumes that the Englishwoman was the victim of a rape organized by Kumar. But when Miss Manners says that Merrick has the wrong men and refuses to testify, a conviction is impossible. Still it is clear to the English community that Merrick has done his job well, and there is no outcry when he manages to have Kumar and his friends imprisoned as political unreliables. The Japanese, after all, have just defeated the English in Burma...
...truth of Kumar's innocence and the fact that Merrick is a man for whom law is an instrument of perversion and prejudice are not sufficiently unexpected to require four volumes of explanation. What does fully justify Scott's endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the British community to avoid acknowledging the truth and the dubious morality of its presence as ruler of India. Kumar's own cultural alienation tends to make his case hopeless. He was raised from infancy in England, and he acquired upper-class speech and habits at a prestigious public school...