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Karwar is the headquarters of the Kanara district in the Southern portion of the Bombay Presidency. It is the tract of the Malaya Hills of Sanskrit literature where grow the cardamum creeper and the Sandal Tree. My second brother was then Judge there. The little harbour, ringed round with hills, is so secluded that it has nothing of the aspect of a port about it.
En route we passed through Karwar, Ankola, Kumta, Honavar, Kundapur and Udupi. Mangalore happens to be my ancestral home. We stayed at my grand uncle's house which is very close to the bus-stand. It is a two storey building in the heart of Mangalore and my grand aunt Monica Mauxi lives there with her three sons, Reggie, Patrick and Lambert and their families in a sort of joint family set-up.
This Nature's Revenge may be looked upon as an introduction to the whole of my future literary work; or, rather this has been the subject on which all my writings have dwelt the joy of attaining the Infinite within the finite. On our way back from Karwar I wrote some songs for the Nature's Revenge on board ship.
For where joy reigns on every side, to hunt for it arduously, or amidst pomp and circumstances, is to lose it. Shortly after my return from Karwar, I was married. I was then 22 years of age. Pictures and Songs Chhabi o Gan, Picture and Songs, was the title of a book of poems most of which were written at this time. We were then living in a house with a garden in Lower Circular Road.
The sea beach of Karwar is certainly a fit place in which to realise that the beauty of Nature is not a mirage of the imagination, but reflects the joy of the Infinite and thus draws us to lose ourselves in it.
If the subject matter gets the better of the creation, the result is a mere replica of the event, not a reflection of it through the Artist's mind. Nature's Revenge Here in Karwar I wrote the Prakritir Pratishodha, Nature's Revenge, a dramatic poem. A little girl, however, brought him back from his communion with the infinite to the world and into the bondage of human affection.
One of the reasons may be that the national mourning for Vidyasagar, whose death followed shortly after, left no room for a recognition of the other bereavement. Another reason may be that his main contributions being outside the pale of Bengali literature, he had been unable to reach the heart of the people. Karwar Our Sudder Street party next transferred itself to Karwar on the West Sea coast.
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