Pranesacharya’s plight is that of many, modern Hindus in search of a stable identity in a shifting world. It is this type of what I shall call fallen hindu who is ripe for a modern guru. Their number in India is steadily growing. The novelist U.R. Ananthamurthy, himself part of modern India, has confessed that he got the idea for writing Samskara after a viewing of Bergman’s disturbing religious masterpiece, The Seventh Seal. |
T.G. Vaidyanathan writing in his essay ‘Authority and Identity in India’, published in Dædalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, issue entitled ‘Another India’, Fall 1989, Vol.118, No.4.
I came across it in the book,Mr.Naipaul's Round Trip and Other Essays
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