Rosalind Rajagopal

Rosalind Rajagopal

Rosalind Edith Rajagopal, (née Rosalind Edith Williams, 1903–1996) was a long-time director of the Happy Valley School in Ojai, California, United States, which she founded with Jiddu Krishnamurti, Guido Ferrando, and Aldous Huxley in 1946.

Through her family's involvement in the Theosophical Society she became acquainted with Jiddu Krishnamurti and his ailing brother Nityananda ("Nitya", 1898–1925) in 1922. At the time, she had been asked to be a companion and nurse to the latter, who died of tuberculosis in 1925. Rosalind developed close ties to the brothers and sometime after her 1927 marriage to their fellow Indian associate Rajagopal Desikacharya (commonly D. Rajagopal, or "Raja", 1900–1993), she and the philosopher Krishnamurti began a long-term romantic relationship. This relationship became a source of controversy when it was revealed in the 1991 book Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti written by her daughter Radha Rajagopal Sloss.