RESURGENCE Journal of the Fourth World 24 Abercom Place, St • .John's Wood, London, N.W.8 Vol.3, No. 5 January/February 1971
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How to Stop Inflation by Really Trying
Editorial
Two Poems Peter Kiddle
Face to Face:
The Indian Village Revolution
Jayaprakash Narayan
Quotes
Ecological Alternative Michael North
Letters
Poem John Haag
By-election Notebook John Papworth
Poem Lou Glandfield
Things
Editorial Group
Roger Franklin Miles Gibson Stephen Horne
Michael and Frances Horovitz
Managing Editor Layout and Art Newsletter
Poetry
Graham Keen Layout and Art
John Lloyd
Michael North john Papworth Mrs. M. Rohde Andrew Singer
Martin Thom
Publicity Business and subscriptions
Editor
French Monitor German Monitor Spanish Monitor
Associate Editors: Ernest Bader, Danilo Dolci, Paul Goodman, Ray Gosling, Prof. Leopold Kohr, jayaprakash Narayan, Dr. E. F. Schumacher.
Credits: Thanks to Geoffrey Ostergaard and Shiva Rana Krishnan for footnotes to Narayan's article, and to Pat Adams, Peggy Hemming, Philip Pool and Anne Vogel for proofreading.
Contributors:
The COVER shows a meeting of the Kanshila village council. Photographer, TOM HANLEY discovered the Gramdan movement while on a 37-day tour of India. A few more of his many beautiful pictures were published in The Illustrated London News (21 Nov. 1970). Although the article there ends on a pessimistic note, Tom himself is not discouraged about Gramdan, saying "the gift of land from the rich to the poor (is) a philosophy so simple that it has confounded politicians of both left and right ... "
LOU GLANDFIELD. Has been writing since he was 14. Published in "South West Review", "Genesis" and "Asses jawbone". His prime concerns are composition and poetry, the repression of violence and the preservation of people and cultures which are dying and/or subject to genocide. His poem "Indian Woman" appeared in our last issue.
PETER KIDDLE. Born in 1944. Married and living in Devon in "an experiment in rural-reconstruction'·, teaching English and organising and promoting arts events. He has been writing for the past 4 years, mostly poetry concerned with his landscape and its history. Published in "Asses jawbone", "Workshop", and "South West Review" and read in London and the South West. Would like to return to India and finish a book he is writing with his wife about the
Green Man, but sees himself growing very old, quietly where he is, between the Moon and the Sea. JOHN HAAG. Published: "The Mirrored Man" (poems - Reading University Press), "The BrineBreather" (poems - KAY AK Press) "Atlantis on $5 a Day" (a novel the Freehand Press). Also a book on wild mushrooms and a full-length children's book called "The Mope", to be published sometime in 1971. ("The best children's book since Lewis Carroll"). At present living in the USA. MICHAEL NORTH was born in Surrey, is 24 and combines farming in Wales with the most careful surveillance of Resurgence subscriptions and accounts.
JA YAPRAKASH NARAYAN began his political career as an ardent Marxist. Later he joined the Praja Socialist Party and subsequently became its President, as well as being elected to the presidency of several of India's largest trade unions.
In 1954, he suddenly resigned all his offices and quit party politics to work in the Land Gift Movement begun by Vinoba Bhave. Despite the furore his decision caused at the time, he is today one of the most widely respected men in India and is currently President of the Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development (AVARD). Several of his articles have been published in previous issues of Resurgence, the last in Jan/Feb, 1969.
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