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記浪流手三
A CHINESE FICTURE.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1950.
SIRDAR K.M. PANIKKAR
Sn
on
One of the key posts in serve under the foreign British them will bring to their meating. Asian politics today is that of Government in India was re- Not the least curious feature in Indian Ambassador in Com-pugnent to him. But in the semi-the situation is that Panikkar has independent Indian States, ruled a very strong physical reseni- munist China. It has always by the Maharajahs, he found the blance to Lenin, especially in the been the ambition of Congress scope ho needed. По became shape of the head, cut of the
Secretary to the beard, and characteristic stance. India to act as the bridge be-eventually
of Chamber
Princes,
Before taking up his post. Political tween East and West. To Minister in Kashmir and in the Peking, Panikkar has boon effect this, India must first
and leave in India. As was to be ex- great Sikh State of Patiala, come to terms with China, anally Prime Minsiter of Bikaner, pected; he devoted his leave to his and here lies the opportunity one
of the chief States of intellectual Interests, Last Jan- uary he delivered an important for the Indian Ambassador in Rajputana,
He became known as one of the convocation, address at Delhi Uni- Peking.
ablest administrators in India. versity. One or two passages of Fortunately the holder of this But that was the mere routine this will show very well the key post is equal to its respon-side of his life. He began besides temper of the mind which is now
being tuned to he
he great The Ambassador is as sibilities.
of Sino-Indian extraordinary a figure as his mis- sion is weighty. His name is K. M. Panikkar, and he is one of the most romarkable figures which this generation ·has 'produced, not only in India, or in Asia, but in the
the ex-
the
By Windrush
"Our new delation
problems
equall- tarian, and secular State is not built upon the foundations of an- elent India, or of Hindu thought. What we have created is sorme- thing new, as the life we hope to live and the civilisation we strive to develop. is also something A synthesis
to exercise political influenca. It was he who, when the British Fabiomes from treme South West corner of India, Government was drawing up the Malabar coast, a country of or 1935, precipitated the negotia-
of great Government of India Act new.... great beauty, long tradition, and
Indian rather
sinister fame as the centre tons for federating the
States with British India. The "What modern Indla represents of ancient cults and black magic.
were
In the
end is a now civilisation, a synthesis It is the home of
community negotiations of Indian Christians who
abortive because the war provent-between the East and the West. claim,
the to date
plan
of The history of India in all its back to ed the fulfillment of
athe Act of 1935. But it was the great ages has shown that as a we have never been ex-
probably rightly, to
Thomas the
Intellectual
vigour. Panikkar belongs
to a
An impression of Miss Tong
in action by the artlit, Mr. A. C. Gcott,
Chinese Classical dancer
Miss one of the
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country much ever-populater, and plan of federation, Initiated by people who may aude towards most distinguished exponents also teeming with
towards uniting the States and other countries, and have freely of classical Chinese dancing, caste of hereditary warriors, call-British India which was achieved assimilated what other countries will make her first professiohal TOMORROW of the had to contribute.... by the merger ed the Nairs, who in the past may
"It is a matter of pride to us, the States in 1047. have comewhat resembled Samural
time Panikker was not of shame, that as a result of tila During Japun. Panikkar's family were
land-owners, The known to the politeial world as a 150 years of association with timber used for making Nelson's rising statesman. But there were Britain we have been able fing-ship, the Victory, was sold
of
from their teak forests.
gree
the
to
a great many people in India, effect a synthesis of the East and and some also in the West, who the West, a synthesis which has knew of him in a quite different expenal life, in our social re- itself in every sphere As a young man, speaking not kne werd of English, Panikkar was capacity who were in fact sur- of nationa
was lationships, in our conception of that .he sent as a student to Oxford. He prised to learn
our political obtained a
In engaged a brilliant Brat class de-engu
politics at all. For law, in art, and in
and institutions.... this astonishingly energetic in history. This was at
whatever its "Hindu culture, ho led first world wor; and res
severni i versatile man end of the the next few years Pan
Pankkicur
lives. He spent
also philosopher, poet, greatness and whatever its value, travelling about Europe,
Eving novelist and historian. In his will survive only if it assimilater chiefly in Paris. This was the native Malabar he is regarded as the experience of other cultures, time when he acquired his grasp writing in the language called what
asp the foremost novelist of the day and renovate itself by abandoning become old and of what really happens!!CS.Malayalam. He has written
and the meaningless, He supported himself by
in terms of alism; and there was hardly standard histories of the Dutch whatever remains
in India and class, group, faction,
out- or
the Portugese in modern life....
The difference between the standing personality in Europe at India. (He learned Dutch and that time, with whom he did not Portuguese for the purpose, and educated man and an uneducated
many months in the one lles not so much in the know become acquainted. French parlia-raries of Lisbon and the Vati-ledge that one has accumulated mentarians, Nazis in Germany when they were almost unknown, can. He was in demand at Indian through books, but in the social
conscience Jesults, Cardinals, Communists, Universities to lecture on ancient
which one develops, the discipline one nequires, the Trotskyists, Annamite and In-und modern political theory.
values one cultivates, and, above donesian refugees, Chinese of all
all, the spirit of charity persuosions,
toleration which one develops."
2
Balanced life
organisation of
4
nt
reinterprets
and
Balkan
princes, ministers, chamberlains and ban- dits-with all he was quite ot How did he contrive to pack so home. The immense gusto which
PILOT ESCAPED he brought to the study of the much into his life, By a careful his day's work.
BY A TRICK whole range of public life has Like many Hindus he rose perhaps been equalled by only dawn. But before turning to the
Vienna, April 1. one other connoisseur of political duties of his political office he A 24-year-old Hungarian pilot, 1fc-Disraeli,
spent three clear hours in his Istras Urzan, landed an old Hun- Herary activity. His divided and garten training plans in a field balanced life ot scholar artist near Salzburg today having made pnd administrator-recalled
Brick
ood his escape from Hungary by
Man of action
appearance on the local stage on April 8 when she will per- form at the Wah Yan College auditorium.
The performances will be re- peated on April 9 and 10. under the distinguished patronage Miss Tong will give the recital
of Lady Grantham and the Bri- tish Council. The recital will be given under the title "An Even- ing In Cathay, which she
越
borrowing from the description of an American tour she conducted some years ago.
Her repertoire will include the dance of Yang Kuel-fel-the in- toxicated beauty.
The name of this Court 13- vourite of the Tang dynasty has been perpetuated more than any other in Chinese poetry and litera- ture, an inspiration which has also lived on in the Chinese classical- drama.
Kuei-fel, depicts an episode from In this play, Miss Tong as Yong
the Imperial Palace.
The Court beauty learns from
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But Ponikkar was not only on little that of Goethe--the moroja observer. Like Disraeli, he was especially because Welmar, the Urzan was flying with a co- also a man of netion. For a few, tiny German State
of which pilot when he landed his plane Balaton in Hungary years, he remained poised, un-Goethe was the chief minister, near
To watch the play of the certain which way to throw his resembled an Indian extraordin and sent his co-pilot to fetch "Rippling Water" sleeves, us they
are known technically, soma cigarettes. While the cɔ- energies whether in the cause of arily closely. International revolution, towards After India
Urzan took off performance of an became indepen- pilot was away
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should pass on of Panikkar
to a near Salzburg. sober administration in the larger stage. He has been a re- Urzan, who was a prisoner in movement to be seen in any form bourgeois world. Finally he chose presentative of India at the Unit British hands during the war, has of dramatic art. the second course: but his ed Nations Assembly. He became asked for political asylum in Aus- achievements since. then have Ambassador to the Kuomintang tria, the reports from Salzburg been neither sober nor un-Government. Now he is to become to the Vienna Press said-Reu romantic.
Ambassador to the Chinese Com-ter. Panikkar was a strong-nation-munists. What Mao Tse-tung_will — alist. He came from an Indian make of him is one of the ques- State, Travancore, which had tions of the future. How extraor never been under British rule. To] dinary is the past which each of
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