George Orwell Quote

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa. Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.


Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)


There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and...

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and...

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and...

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and...