| Asoka Priyadarsin |
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| Temples Of India |
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PREFACE |
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to keep pace with the varying moods of the hero. I effected a change
in my narration. So, the style swings between rhetoric and dramatic
and tends to become didactic. I hope, it has! Hence the occasion for
fear. For, didactic literature seldom adorns the hands of modem
readers. They dare not allow it to enter into their heads, but rest
their heads comfortably upon it. Besides my fear is justly fortified
by John Walcott's dictum:
"Deal not in history, often have I said; It will prove a most unprofitable trade". The history business has thus become a bootless undertaking. It serves neither. "Is it a case for abandoning the study of history"? My query was at once met with an emphatic 'NO' that silenced me for over. On
dispassionate thinking, I found justification of my urge, since,
'history' alone points out the right direction and puts us on the
rosy path of ethereal bliss. Living
as we do in this transition period, punctuated by mounting tension
and unending upheavals, hurling us head-long into the abominable
abyss, we are particularly bound to imbibe its spirit in right
earnest without loss of- time. Right understanding of its all
inspiring message for a passionate desire to whole-hearted
implementation, is the only answer that heals all the ills and evils
of this mundane machine age. |
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