The Light of Asia by Jairam Ramesh

Author:Jairam Ramesh [Ramesh, Jairam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789391149208
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2021-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

It was natural and expected for newspapers and literary magazines across the world to take note of Arnold’s death and draw attention to his life, his works and to the enduring charm and appeal of The Light of Asia. Arnold had been a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society as well as of the Royal Geographical Society. Both institutions paid fulsome tributes. But to be remembered by the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain as well showed the wide canvas of his interests6 and revealed how much of a public phenomenon he had become largely on account of his authorship of The Light of Asia. The notice of his death appeared in The Aeronautical Journal of April 1904 alongside a piece on aerial screw propellers!

The late Sir Edwin Arnold

It is with sorrow we have to announce the death of an illustrious and esteemed member of the Council of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. On March 24, Sir Edwin Arnold Author of “The Light of Asia” breathed his last. In the many biographical sketches of the poet that have been published, and which have so ably detailed his literary work and other pursuits, it has escaped the pen of writers that in addition to the wide range of subjects that Sir Edwin Arnold’s sympathies embraced was the science of aeronautics. This fact it becomes the special duty of this journal to record . . .

In the Daily Telegraph of March 25 there appeared an excellent and heartfelt account of the life and labours of Sir Edwin Arnold . . . Amongst the traits of personal character mentioned in this eulogy is his “temper of imperturbable sweetness” noted in his “sunny optimism”. These qualities made it possible for him to fight political battles with vigour, but not with rancour or unfriendliness of speech, so that the words of his pen seemed an expression of his own translation of the Buddhistic rule:

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