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the western countries. For it is an open secret that along with the army and navy and air crafts the bigger nations of the West think it necessary to maintain their organizations of world-wide propaganda of misrepresentation. Neither did I have any qualification nor the intention to dabble in politics which specially concerns any of the European countries. And this was why I wanted to keep my mind neutral when I came to ltaly. But we live in a whirlwind to talk today and an individual like myself is compelled to contribute to that universal noise, dragged by the chain of Karmas as we say in our country. I allowed myself to fall a victim to this relentless Karma with its ever lengthening coil of consequence when I succumbed to the importunity of press interviewers in Italy. An interview is a dangerous trap in which our unwary opinions are not only captured but mutilated. Words that come out of a monient’s mood are meant to be forgotten, but when they are snap-shotted, most often our thoughts in them are presented in a grotesque posture which is an irony of accident. The camera in this case being also a living mind the picture becomes a composite one in which two dissimilar features of mentality have a mesalliance that is likely to be unhappy and undignified. \○8t