In Light of IndiaFor six years Octavio Paz served as Mexico's ambassador to India--an experience that forever changed his life. Now, in Paz's most personal work of prose to date, the Nobel Prize Laureate brings his poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on a vast and extraordinary subject: the culture, landscape, and essence of India. |
Contents
THE ANTIPODES OF COMING AND GOING | 1 |
Delhi | 14 |
Rama and Allah | 37 |
The Cosmic Matrix | 55 |
Feasts and Fasts | 75 |
The Singularity of Indian History | 90 |
Nationalism Secularism Democracy | 118 |
The Apsara and the Yakshi | 137 |
Chastity and Longevity | 164 |
The Contraptions of Time | 185 |
Acknowledgments | 207 |
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