“It is not the distinctive quality of man to be a mere repetition of his ancestors. Animals cling to the nests of their effete habits; man expresses himself age after age in new creations.”– Rabindranath Tagore in 19311
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Notes & references“I was moved by how many of these lives pose challenges to the Indian present,” he writes, “and remind us of future possibilities that are in danger of being closed off.”2
- Tagore on Gandhi, New Delhi 2008, p. 31[↩]
- Sunil Khilnani quoted in a review by William Dalrymple in The Guardian, 14 March 2016[↩]