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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy Like Dilip Roy, Winston S. Churchill in Great Contemporaries and Lytton Strachey in Eminent Victorians have drawn sketches of their great contemporaries. But they are compact and to the point. Roy lacks their skill and brevity. Superfluity is the characteristic of his writing. He lacks discipline. Churchill wrote in the Preface to Great Contemporaries: "In their sequence they may perhaps be the stepping-stones of historical narrative."172 Dilip Roy's sketches exhibit a current of his contemporary Indian spiritual seeking. But could it form a stepping stone for any systematic narrative ? Dilip Roy's character-sketches are similar to his fuller portraits. They differ only in the measure of space provided and the degree of closeness of contact.
Notes:
Dilip Kumar Roy and Indira Devi, Pilgrims of the Stars 1973; rpt. (Porthill: Timeless Books, 1985) p. 61. Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great 4th ed. (Pondicheny: All India Books, 1984) p. 50. ibid pp. 1-5. Roy and Devi, Pilgrims, p. 62. Roy Among, 10. ibid. 10. ibid. 13. ibid 15. ibid 16.
ibid 37 11. ibid. 22 12. ibid. 22. 13. Roy and Devi, Pilgrims, p. 63 14. ibid p. 63. 15. Roy, Among, p.27 16. Roy and Devi, Pilgrims, p.64. 17. ibid. p. 65 18. Roy, Among, p.x.
Roy and Devi, Pilgrims, P. 62. 20. Roy, Among, p.42. 21. ibid.,p.9.
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