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At a seminar held recently in India to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Sri Aurobindo, we might have expected a series of laudatory speeches, as is customary when centenaries of well-known Indian and international figures are celebrated. But the secretary of the Ministry of Education, which hosted the seminar to celebrate the Aurobindo centenary, was a sensitive Hindi poet, who made the occasion an excuse to discuss problems of contemporary writing in the Indian languages. After the Minister paid the expected tributes to Aurobindo and called upon the writers to uphold Indian culture, work for national integration, world peace and so forth, we settled down to business. We had met in one of the dingy provincial capitals of North India, and among us we had writers in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada, and an internationally-famous Indian painter.
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Murthy, U.R.A. (1982). The Search for an Identity: A Kannada Writer’s Viewpoint. In: Amirthanayagam, G. (eds) Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04940-0_6
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