The Art of The Nation !
The Mythic Society has always been a familiar name , since its quarterly journals were part of the home library , subscribed since Grandfather's days . Though as young ones , we hardly perused the super scholarly articles in it , we did feel properly proud when some awed friends and visitors commented on their presence in our shelves . If they assumed that the whole family was given to erudition , we did not actively try to disabuse them of that thought . All I know is that Father and Grandfather were sometimes seen with their noses in the Quarterly . And that , I had once picked up a random issue out of curiosity and was quite tickled to read an article about a pre-medieval lady poet who wrote .......some unexpectedly "frank" poems in chaste Sanskrit ! The Society , housed in a very handsome colonial building in Bengaluru , named Daly Memorial Hall , very close to where near relatives lived , remained ...