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I especially enjoyed the work of Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), a.k.a. “Arthur Avalon,” who—while prominently serving as Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in British India—spent his private hours explaining, defending and ultimately practicing in the then widely reviled Hindu religious schools of Shaiva and Shakta Tantrism.
Michael M. Bowden • The Goddess and the Guru: A Spiritual Biography of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati
The venom of one provides the lifeblood of the other.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.