Status Updates From Pasaje a la India

“He had liked the Ruler very much, and might not prosper under his successor, yet he could not worry over such problems yet, for he was involved in the illusion he helped to create.”

“Aziz, the day of his inauguration, had remarked: ‘ I study nothing, I respect’ - making an excellent impression. There was now a minimum of prejudice against him.”

“It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flash that Saints retreat into the Himalayas.”

NOOOOO DR.AZIZ!

if i had a booktok account and was recommending classics, i think this one would do incredibly well

such an interesting read… the skill of the author to completely capture two competing cultures