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The Lotus Blossom
The Lotus Blossom
The Lotus Blossom
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Louise Farrell was homesick. She had seen hundreds of examples of ancient architecture, mosques, and Hindu shrines. She was bone-tired and irritable, tired of the culture, the filth and poverty, the red dirt piled about everywhere, the crowds of humanity, and the odor of chapattis being baked over cow dung fires. Truth be said, she was eager to return to the clean, wide-open spaces of the Flint Hills of Kansas.

Although her husband Richard had been told that no one could capture the essence of India in the written word, he had notebooks filled with his impressions of the history, the Vedic literature, the agriculture, the hundreds of dialects of the Hindi language, the political turmoil, and the warring religions of the country.

How did it happen that a basketball coach and mediocre teacher of history from the Midwest wound up in India after one of the countless famines that had struck the country, this one more severe than others because of the rice crop which failed in Bengal after independence and partition? The United States sent aid to this fledgling democracy, of course. The problem was this: India could not repay its debts except in rupees. What was the United States to do with hundreds of millions of rupees that could only be spent in India, one of the poorest countries on the face of the earth? Senator Fulbright came up with the solution. The United States would send teachers to India to study and spend those rupees there. And so it was that Richard and Louise Farrell and their daughter Kitty went to India to study and to travel in order to learn about one of the oldest cultures on earth.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherWestBow Press
Release dateFeb 21, 2017
ISBN9781512771121
The Lotus Blossom
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Lila Lee

In the late 1970’s I went to India for eight weeks of study and extensive travel with twenty high school teachers in the Nebraska Asia Studies Group under a Fulbright Fellowship. We met the President, Prime Minister, and many important people while we learned about the history and the people of the country.. We were told we would want to write a book about India, but it would be impossible. I agreed. When we returned to our classes in the fall, I attended a writer’s group in Kansas City and learned about the time travel novels. It was then I wanted to tell the story about the Sepoy revolt against the English army in India during the 1850’s. THE LOTUS BLOSSOM was the result.

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