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They are no longer the same because I myself am no longer the same. India always changes people, and I have been no exception.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Doctors don't know a thing. These diseases that people [who travel there] get in India, they're not physical, they're purely psychic. We only get them because we try to resist India — because we shut ourselves up in our little Western egos and don't want to give ourselves.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Born: May 7, 1927

Died: April 3, 2013 (aged 85)

Bio: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

Known for:

Heat and Dust (1975)
Out of India (1986)
Esmond In India (1958)
The nature of passion (1956)
In Search of Love and Beauty (1983)

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