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Papers
Typescript drafts of their books: A mouthful of petals, Tiger on a rein, and, Glorious in that dawn; correspondence from Australian, British and Indian publishers; and notes, pamphlets, articles, drafts, and letters from Narayan and S.N. Ray concerning the biography.
A Mouthful of Petals
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One Bright Morning
A love story set against the backdrop of World War II, and the imminent threat of invasion into Darwin.
The Day They Shot Edward
It is 1916. The Australian community is riven over a referendum to conscript more troops for the killing fields of Europe. Nine-year-old Matthew's family, divided politically and sinking into poverty, reflects the social conflict. Handsome, generous Edward is at the centre of the family friction. Gran hates the war as Edward does, Mother flirts with him to escape the misery of her marriage, and young Matthew adores him. As patriotic frenzy takes hold, police informers spy on Edward and track his anti-conscription activities. Sabotage and anarchism are meaningless words to Matthew. Absorbed in childhood fantasies, he is unaware that he too is helping draw the net around Edward. It is left to Matthew's German headmaster to teach him that, like music, people grow with love.
The Day They Shot Edward
A powerful novel about lost innoence and the tragedy of war. Caught-up in a man-hunt for his anarchist friend in jingoistic World War I Australia, a boy finds that only beauty and love are consolations for the cruelty he witnesses.
Hunger Town
An Australian woman trying to make a life for herself and her love during The Great Depression makes a perilous journey.
A Mouthful of Petals
A Mouthful of Petals is a nonfiction account of three years working in an Indian village in the early 1960s. Previously published, it became a minor classic among good samaritans, particularly in Britain, and was reviewed by The Times, New Statesman and such like. At the invitation of India's venerated political leader and activist Jayaprakash Narayan, Wendy and Allan Scarfe, two dedicated but far from solemn young Australian teachers, travelled to the remote village of Sokhodeora in Bihar in 1960. They had been asked to take charge of the educational activities of his ashram, but over the three years they lived there, their activities extended far beyond that. This humane and important book...
A Mouthful of Petals
A Mouthful of Petals is a nonfiction account of three years working in an Indian village in the early 1960s. Previously published, it became a minor classic among good samaritans, particularly in Britain, and was reviewed by The Times, New Statesman and such like. At the invitation of India's venerated political leader and activist Jayaprakash Narayan, Wendy and Allan Scarfe, two dedicated but far from solemn young Australian teachers, travelled to the remote village of Sokhodeora in Bihar in 1960. They had been asked to take charge of the educational activities of his ashram, but over the three years they lived there, their activities extended far beyond that. This humane and important book...
J.P., His Biography
This revised edition brings to a close the fascinating life story of Jayaprakash Narayan, one of the last outstanding moral and political figures who carried forward Gandhi s legacy of non-violent mass struggle and village self-sufficiency into post-Independence India. The biography vividly illustrates JP s infinite capacity for reflection and change, working relentlessly as he did for issues as varied as the freedom struggle, panchayati raj, worker s rights, and collective self-help.
