Triveni-Journal of Indian Renaissance September-October 1932

It is expected that the third IL T. C. will"108 TRIVENI undertake a review of the report of the Indian Franchise Committee and in the light of the conclusions of the R. T. C. in regard to methods of representation it is presumed that the Government of India will deal with the whole subject in consultation with the Local Governments and a special committee may in all probability be appointed for [...] Even apart from this aspect of the problem we are now at the threshold of a new democratic system in India and it is desirable that we should take stock of the experience gained in other parts of the world of the working of the electoral systems in force there and devise ways and means for the introdue-METHODS OR REPRESENTATION 109 tion of a satisfactory method of returning the representatives to [...] The Sacred Wood has already become the Bible of critics who follow him while The Waste Land is one of the great poems of the world a poem which in its temper and expression has like Huxley's Leda shown the weariness the fever and the fret of the post-War world. [...] We may take it as a symphony of despair or a spirit-symphony ; and in its discords its weird music its undying images and the hush hush hush of its silences it suggests the very stir of stars the rustle of planets and the crash of worlds : This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper." Some may find beauty and ot [...] Lindsay with his passion for community-singing gives us the music of the hurdy-gurdy and drums in the boom-boom-boom of his lines and the rattle of rhymes: This is the order of the music of the morning :- First from the far east comes but a crooning ; The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.