Rohini Murugan’s Reviews > The Discovery of India > Status Update

I just finished reading Willian Dalrymple, and Nehru is again giving me the same Indian history spiel

“I suppose the poor and unfortunate in every other country become to some extent, other-worldly, unless they become revolutionaries, for this world is evidently not meant for them.”

‘Plaything of nature’s mighty forces, less than a speck of dust in this vast universe, he has hurled defiance at the elemental powers, and with his mind, cradle of revolution, sought to master them. Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.’

I’m in tears.

‘I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me’

Damn.

I 100% did not expect to read Nehru’s thoughts on free will and determinism in the first 20 pages.

May God bless me for not ending up a nationalist at the end of this, what I can strongly predict to be a beautiful, journey