Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Balachandra Rajan
Born: 1920
Died: 2009 (aged 89)
Bio: Balachandra Rajan was an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics.
Known for:
- Milton and the Climates of Reading (2006)
- W.B.Yeats: A Critical Introduction (1965)
- The dark dancer (1958)
- Too long in the West (1961)