Glimpses of Bengal: Selected From the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore ...
Glimpses of Bengal: Selected From the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore ...
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
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The fellow dragged in the subject by the ears and insisted on arguing it out with our host, poor B Babu. He said the moral standard of the people of this country was low ; that they had no real belief in the sacredness of life ; so that they were unfit to serve on juries. The utter contempt with which we are regarded by these people was brought home to me when I saw how they can accept a Bengali's hospitality and talk thus, seated at his table, without a quiver of compunction. N As I sat in a c...omer of the drawing- ^^oom after dinner, everything round me looked blurred to my eyes. I seemed to be seated by the head of my great, insulted Motherland, who lay there in the dust before me, disconsolate, shorn H Digiti ized by Google 98 LETTERS of her glory. 1 cannot tell what a pro- found distress overpowered my heart. How incongruous seemed the meni' sahibs there, in their evening-dresses, the hum of English conversation, and the ripples of laughter! How richly true for us is our India of the ages ; how cheap and false the hollow courtesies of an English dinner-party 1 CUTTACK, March 1893.
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