Jain Journal 1978 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 49

Against the Time in the Land of Silence
NEMICHAND JAIN
"For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned
The recent departure of Sahu Shanti Prasadji to the world of the unknown, has been another shock and an irreparable loss after an earlier bereavement of his beloved life-companion, Shrimati Rama Jain. Both played the role of an unprecedented significance, as a pair of wheels of a chariot, carrying laurels with love and goodwill of the nation. They have arrived at last at the end of their great pilgrimage.
Sahuji, rose with a first class student career. He was a scientific genius with an insight which bade him serve the cause of an ancient nation, its imperishable culture as well as civilization. This work was
sted to his left hand, Shrimati Rama Devi, who was as noble as the goddess of knowledge, the incarnate Saraswati. He visited the far off lands for a devoted motivation of developing the lagging industrial pursuits of the newly born India. He was a builder and a perfect builder,
“Ah, to build, to build That is the noblest art of all the arts."
Shrimati Rama Jain was an artist, an artist with talent, educated at Tagore's Shanti Niketan, a successful trainee under the great builder, Sahu Shantiji. As a patron of the Bharatiya Jnan Pitha, she was a refuge to the down-trodden talents of the literary world. She appreciated, encouraged and awarded the creative works. She was herself cast as a