Countering Southasian/naxalite Organizations In US - 2

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'An End to Suffering': Philosopher King

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ONE night during the time I was reading this book, I had the odd experience of bumping unexpectedly into its author. At the lower Manhattan holiday party of a stylish magazine, I was briefly introduced to an <b>owlish fellow with a Brahminical beard </b> who smiled at me amid the din of a crowded sake bar. You occasionally hear of writers, especially when their books are of long incubation, coming to resemble their subjects, and my fleeting glimpse of Pankaj Mishra seems to offer uncanny proof of the phenomenon. For here, surely, was the young Siddhartha Gautama himself: a scholar-sophisticate, a personality both cosmopolitan and ascetic, at large and at home in the world.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

1. I didnt know there was something called a 'brahminical beard'.. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> 2. Pankaj Mishra is Buddha himself.. <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> 3. Buddha was 'secular'. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->