Other Writings:
    Stories, Papers, and Lectures

The following is an approximately complete listing of the various and sundry publications in which G.V. Desani's writings appeared. (Many of the fictional works appear in Hali and Collected Stories.)
  • The Writers Workshop Selection: Modern Indian Poetry in English, P. Lal (ed.), Writers Workshop, Calcutta, 1969 (pp. 9).
     
  • Modern Indian Poetry in English, An Anthology, P. Lal (ed.), two verses with notes (pp. 127-134), Calcutta, 1969.
     
  • T.S. Eliot, nine pages (with others), Calcutta, 1970.
     
  • The Yellow Text of Theravada Buddhism, edited, with notes by
    G.V. Desani, printed in Austin with permission of Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1973.
     
  • Indian Horizons, "Mainly Concerning Kama and Her Immortal Lord", Vol. xxii, No. 1, January, 1973, India Council of Cultural Relations, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, 1973, 42 pages, with illustrations, translated into Arabic, Spanish, and French.
     
  • I Believe ..., K. Singh (ed.), 11 pages in a book by various contributors, Hind Kitab, Delhi, 1974.
     
  • ACLAL Bulletin, "Rudyard Kipling's Evaluation of His Mother", (University of Mysore), Fourth Series, No. 3, January, 1976.
     
  • Awakened Conscience: Studies in Commonwealth Literature, C.D. Narasimhaiah, Chapter 34, "Difficulties of Communicating an Oriental to a Western Audience," pp. 7, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1978.
     
  • Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature, D. Massa (ed.) "A Marginal Comment on the Problem of Medium in Bicultures", (pp. 8), University Press, 1979.
     
  • Boston University Journal, "Down with Philosophy", January, 1979.
     
  • University College Quarterly, "A Passage to MidWest U.S.A. Fly High to Chicago!", p. 24, May, 1979, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1979.
     
  • Westerly: A Quarterly Review, "The Merchant of Kisingarh", December, 1983, No. 4, Nedlands, 1983.

Papers and Essays, 1968-1979

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin:
     
    • "Rudyard Kipling's Evaluation of His Mother", 1968.
       
    • "Civil Disobedience as a Means of Attaining Social and Political Ends As Practiced by M.K. Gandhi", 1970.
       
    • "How Is the Inexpressible To Be Expressed?", 1970
       
    • "Down With Philosophy", 1970.
       
    • "An Indian View of God, Cosmos, Love, Marriage, Sex, etc.", 1971.
       
  • "Bhakti Yoga", paper read at the Southwestern Conference on Asian Studies, University of Houston, October, 1975.
     
  • "An Imageless Image", paper read at the Symposium in Comparative World Humanities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, May, 1976, sponsored by the Honors College, College of Arts and Letters, the University College and the Asian Center under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
     
  • "Certain Difficulties Connected with Communicating an Oriental to a Western Audience", paper read to the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Fourth Triennial Conference, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi, January, 1977.
     
  • "Seminar on 'Mind' ", jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Planning, Government of India, Center for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, National Institute of Health and NeuroScience and the Institute of Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Jammu, Kashmir, January, 1977.
     
  • "Problem of Medium in Bicultures", paper read at the Associations of Commonwealth Literature and Languages Studies, University of Malta, April, 1978.
     
  • "Theravada Buddhism", (outline with bibliography), Department of Religion, Boston University, 1979.
     
  • "Patanjali's Raja Yoga", (outline with bibliography), Department of Religion, Boston University, 1979.
     
  • "Peanuts Cum Sale", Department of Religion, Boston University, 1979.
     
  • "Banaras, City of God", XIII Annual Conference, Boston Institute of Religion and Philosophy, 1979.

Lectures, 1968-1979

  • "Ethics, Nirvana, and Sundry Items", Kishinchand Chellaram College, Bombay, 1968.

  • "Indian Occultism", University of Chicago, 1968.

  • "Technique in All About H. Hatterr", University of Sussex, 1970.

  • "Indian Cultural Values Versus the Western Cultural Values", the Embassy of India, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1970.

  • "How Does Crisis in Civilization Affect India?", Plan II, three lectures, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 1971.

  • "Quality of Life", faculty‑student discussion, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 1971.

  • "Bhakti Yoga, Its Theory and Practice", Southwestern Conference on Asian Studies, University of Houston, Houston, 1975

  • Lecture at the Mahabodhi Society of India, Calcutta, April 1, 1977.

  • "Gandhi's Challenge to Authority", Public Lecture, sponsored by Boston University, Morse Auditorium, November 10, 1979.

  • "Has India Anything to Teach to the United States?", Public  Lecture, sponsored by Boston University, Morse Auditorium, November 17, 1979.

Other Activities and Honors, 1969-1982

  •  All About H. Hatterr was a textbook in courses taught at American University, Leeds University (1969), University of Sussex (1969), University of Mysore.

  • British Council Library, inclusion in the exhibition of All About H. Hatterr (Penguin Modern Classics edition), Bombay, July, 1977.

  • Room dedicated to the convenience of Tibetan pilgrims to holy places ‑‑ Calcutta, Mahabodhi Society ‑‑ on behalf of Theravada Philosophy class, University of Texas at Austin ‑‑ for a friend in the 1977 Theravada Buddhism class at the University.

  • "Civil Disobedience, As a Means of Attaining Social and Political Ends as Practiced in South Africa and India by M.K. Gandhi", Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy, Nov. 16, 1979.

  • Original palm leaf manuscript in Tamilian script, entitled, Naradanadi, conveyed to Prof. John R. Silber, Boston University, 1982.

  • European Illustration, 1983, jury selection of the cover (in color) by Catherine Denvir for Penguin Books (King Penguin) of G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr.