Also ref to Krishnamurti this really quite excellent entry on Mrs Besant rather soft pedals the controversies surrounding Mr Leadbeater and her peculiar and continuing support of him He was accused repeatedly of molesting young boys and for a time was drummed out of the Theosophical Society on those grounds Mrs Besant saw to it that he was reinstated Particularly in the case of Krishnamurti with whom Leadbeater was accused of child rape it would seem impolitic to associate them in this article without some acknowledgment that there were difficult issues After all Mrs Besant lost her own children in a not dissimilar way to the circumstances under which Krishnamurti s parents lost him I met and talked to Krishnamurti in 1969 in connection with a film at his compound in Santa Barbara California and brought up the subject of Leadbeater He told me in no uncertain terms and with uncharacteristic ill temper that he would never discuss that man All of this has been a point of public discussion for some time and I wonder if there ought to be a further unearthing of sources for an article that associates Mrs Besant Mr Leadbeater and Krishnamurti kentfx