Where to look to find enlightenment
A new book looks at India’s role in sating spiritual searches | Culture
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Guru. Salesman. Sex pest: The search for enlightenment led The Beatles to the Maharishi. But when their idol made a pass at Mia Farrow, disillusion set in
In a lively narrative, delivered with wit and warmth, Brown shows how Eastern mysticism went from being suspect to venerable, and back again to a subject of scepticism.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
The phoney mystics who fooled the West
In recent years when we’ve talked about the relations between India and the West, we’ve gone back to stressing the impossibility of interchange. A hundred years ago, E.M. Forster ended A Passage to India with the certainty that Aziz and Fielding could not be friends. Forster thought things would be different after Indian independence, but
Source: spectator.co.uk
The Nirvana Express by Mick Brown: sex-gurus and vegetarians
In this entertaining history of the West’s fascination with Indian spirituality, Mick Brown covers all manner of curious characters
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Nilla Cram Cook: How the American briefly became a spokesman for anti-casteism in India
During her three-year stay in India in the 1930s, Nilla Cram Cook drew crowds and controversy.
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