Living the Lotus Life

The Lotus Child

Memoirs of a child at the age of four to an adult of 76 years of age. A span of 72 years life experience involving in a slum area, near destitude, with single parent of unmatched motherly love that cared for him. He projects his life from childhood in the Hindu faith of his mother, the brutality of his separated father and the insurmountable injustice to “Non-White” peoples of Apartheid South Africa. He shares his experience in the daily life he faced in Apartheid South Africa, gives a view of the attitudes of the “Whites” and the inequality he faced. He explains how further education beyond high school was attained by special consent to study in a White only university where he had to pay the same fees as the White students but was denied all the sporting social and cultural facilities and activities.

Despite his nonviolent political activities on the university campus, consent to study further was terminated by the ministry of education and denied access to the university. He was placed under house arrest and subsequently arrested under the terrorism act and imprisoned, tortured and virtually disappeared to the knowledge of his family and friends. He endured prison life through his meditation techniques and raised his threshold for pain he escaped from the country and made a new life as a truly free human being in the UK. He travelled the world acquiring a better understand of indigenous people in the country he visited and could relate to their difficulties.