A SONG was an omen. Before going to the battleground, when death was looming, he wrote down his principles.

And, when the first volley of shots knocked him down, the Dutch troops did not know he was a great writer, an author who viewed literary writing as a means of self-purification which kept him in constant touch with the Supreme Being.

That was I Gusti Ngurah Made Agung. Now, a book, a translation and transliteration of I Gustis original work w