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 |
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 |