About the Author
Dr Monica Felton had been in active public service, serving on the London County Council, the Hertfordshire County Council and on various town-planning committees in Britain before she came to India in 1956. She spent the last fourteen years of her life in Chennai working on various books till her death in 1970. She is also the author of A Child Widow's Story, a moving biography of Sister Subbalakshmi based on a series of meetings between her and Sister, besides a novel To All the Living and a book about her journey to
North Korea titled Why I Went.
Contents
The First Meeting
7
A Meeting in New Delhi
12
Return to Madras
20
The Book Borrowers
27
"When I Was But a Little Tiny Boy ..."
32
Young Americans
39
A Sunday at Elliot's Bay
48
Japanese Visitors
60
My Smallness is My Strength
66
Aryans and Dravidians
74
Strangers and Friends
83
Spoiling the Play
90
Domestic Affairs - and Foreign Aid
97
New Directions
108
The Bad Pupil
114
At Gokhale Hall
120
Madurai
130
A Conference in Calcutta
142
Anger and Love and Love and Marriage
148
Young Man in Mayuram
155
In Hyderabad
163
Other Worlds and Other Times
170
What Do the Details Matter?
176
A Homily on Health
186
Old Boy
190
It's Easy to be Modern
192
I Always Say "No"
201
A Dose of Discouragement
204
The Gun
209
The Puppet Master
220
To Reach the Truth
226
Opposition
233
The Starting Point
241
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