Dedicated with Gratitude and Affection to my Sisters and Brothers in the Baltic States of Lithuania and Latvia: Dr. Antanas Poška (Sanskritist and Indologist, whom I first met in Calcutta in 1934); Dr. Ričardas Mironas (Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit in the University of Vilnius); Dr. Vytautas Mažiulis (Professor of Lithuanian and Linguistics in the University of Vilnius); Mr. Antanas Venclova, Writer and Historian; Mr. Vacys Reimeris, Poet; Dr. Ambraziejus Jonynas and other Members of the Institute of Language and Literature in the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Mme. Mirdza Ķempe, National Poetess of Latvia; Mr. Linards Naikovskis; Dr. Kārlis Egle, Director of the Library of Linguistic, Literary and Humanitarian Section of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, and Translator into Latvian of Rabindranath Tagore’s Writings; Dr. Jānis Kalniņš, Director of the Humanities Section of the Academy; Dr. Pēters Klaviņš, Professor of Sanskrit, Riga University; Dr. Miss Rasma Grisle, of the Linguistics and Sanskrit Department of the University of Riga; Professor Hermanis Bendiks, Deputy Director of the Linguistics Section of the Academy; Dr. Jēkabs Vītoliņš, Folk Music Section of the Academy; Dr. Jāzeps Rudzītis of the Academy of Sciences; Mr. Adolfs A. Talcis, Former Secretary, Latvian Writers’ Union; Miss Sigrid Plāks and Mme. Alice Eks, Writers; and to others; who through personal contact and correspondence helped me to appreciate the Greatness of the Baltic People in their Mental and Spiritual Character and Qualities and in their Achievement in the Arts and Letters and in Science and Technology.