Discovery of India

“I tried to discover India . . . I made my mood receptive.” —Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India 

Tag: fear

  • Trepidation

    In 1889, Rudyard Kipling wrote to his friends in Allahabad that Londoners knew nothing of Life as it was lived, always in peril, in India. Amazingly, Londoners were shocked when an old man died in bed, his family round him. In India, they would see their friends “of thirty-five die at two days’ notice not…