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> Unsuprising that the Western press and academia has the nuance of a brick, perhaps because their own history is so grotesquely checkered. There will always b
by RichardCA 5y ago
> Unsuprising that the Western press and academia has the nuance of a brick, perhaps because their own history is so grotesquely checkered.
There will always be an element of the intangible in any effort by the Western mind to understand India. The experience is one of irreducible complexity, the subject receding from attempts to form a mental framework that permits nuanced understanding.
This documentary is 50 years old. Nothing has changed.
https://youtu.be/XFGO8oL0RLk https://youtu.be/XFGO8oL0RLk