tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post7742072891623441499..comments2023-05-24T23:33:57.516+10:00Comments on My Unwelcome Stranger: Devahuti and Damodar [Part 2]Denis Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-37425893017710346062010-12-30T10:29:17.677+11:002010-12-30T10:29:17.677+11:00Why was the book controversial?Why was the book controversial?Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03796734273732243982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-72224502642145657332010-12-30T08:17:47.680+11:002010-12-30T08:17:47.680+11:00Yes indeed - Damodar wrote that 2 volume book that...Yes indeed - Damodar wrote that 2 volume book that set off such controversy when it was written. He gave me a copy and I made him sign it, and I wouldn't ever give up that set! He asked me to go over the drafts before it went to the publishers. But that fits in with later events - as, I suspect, are my full-time uni days more parallel to yours than this phase you've been reading about. Hey but I never failed a subject though! Too conchy....<br /> You certainly had your tragedies. And life is all about comparisons. How could we make judgments without them?Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-16592443617529035252010-12-29T13:55:31.717+11:002010-12-29T13:55:31.717+11:00Oh - so Damodar is the DP Singhal who wrote a book...Oh - so Damodar is the DP Singhal who wrote a book I have called 'India and World Civilisation (vol II) which I bought 2nd hand(perhaps it was yours!<br />You were fortunate to have someone to help you make sense of the world's history at that age. Arriving from a little coastal village into the radical student politics around the Vietnam war and Whitlam's era in the metropolis of Armidale I was pretty overwhelmed, swept up and failed my exams :) Too innocent.<br /><br />At that age for me also, when you had the shock of your dad's death, my uncle suddenly died and my dad ran off with a young woman, so my mum and aunt were both left in dire straits. It was such a difficult time and the boyfriend I loved intensely left me too! Oh life and its complexities, tragedies, learnings.<br /><br />More please (yes, of your writing AND of life..)<br />PS I love YOUR story which so pleasingly lets us know you better as well as the times, but can't help identifying with my own life - hope you don't mind!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03796734273732243982noreply@blogger.com