Volume 41, Number 15 · September 22, 1994
Indian Love Call
By Ian Buruma
Bengal Nights
by Mircea Eliade
University of Chicago Press, 176 pp., $22.50
It Does Not Die: A Romance
by Maitreyi Devi
University of Chicago Press, 264 pp., $22.50
In 1928 Mircea Eliade left Bucharest for India. He was a twenty-one-year-old student of philosophy, and an aspiring novelist. His purpose was to study in Calcutta under Surendranath Dasgupta, a famous historian of Indian philosophy. Dasgupta was so taken with his Romanian student that he invited him to live in his house.
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