Chapters (45)
- Cover
- The Meaning of India
- Introduction to the New Edition
- Select Further Reading on Raja Rao
- Preface
- Part I
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- Part II
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- Appendix
- Footnotes
- 1. The Meaning of India
- 2. India—A Fable
- 3. My First Meeting with Pandit Jawaharlal
- 4. When Malraux Meets Jawaharlal Nehru
- 5. Mahatma Gandhi: Saint or Politician
- 6. The Silence of Mahatma Gandhi
- 7. Wisdom and Power: A Marriage of Necessity
- 9. The Kumkum Mark
- 10. André Malraux among the Gods of India
- 11. On Understanding
- 12. In Search of—My Bride
- 13. The Shy Bride
- 15. Words of Acceptance
- 16. The Ultimate Word
- 17. Look, the Universe is Burning!
- Appendix : Foreword to Kanthapura
- Notes
- Endnotes
- THE BEGINNING
18.Vak-artha. The famous beginning of Kalidasa’s great poem, the Raghuvamsa. Vak-artha means the word and meaning. Kalidasa compares these two aspects of the Word, to Shiva and his spouse Parvathi.
THE BEGINNING
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