> It is quite a shame, particularly because you also put an end to <snip>
Oh I'm sure I put an end to nothing. :-) No one lost out on "appreciating the rich vision" of Hindu epics because of me. I believe people will appreciate whatever they have to, whenever they have to. Back then, I took serious umbrage to the group being called together under the apparent aegis of a book discussion club - and then discovering that it was subterfuge to hold a religious discussion instead, and that the only books to be discussed would be the Ramayana, the MB, the Upanishads, Vedas etc. Disclosure of this at the invitation stage would have brought a more interested, though smaller audience which would not have included me- or many of my classmates and friends. As it turned out, that was the audience that went to the second meet, and, for whatever reason, the group did not meet a third time.
