mark twain on india

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The quote given in MS Powerpoint file "WatanMeraIndia" avaialable in

group files is:

 

Mark Twain,

American Author

(1835-1920):

 

"This is India!

The land of dreams and romance,

of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty,

of splendor and rags,

of palaces and hovels,

of famine and pestilence,

of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps,

of tigers and elephants,

the cobra and the jungle,

the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues,

of a thousand religions and two million gods,

cradle of the human race,

birthplace of human speech,

mother of history,

grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition,

whose yesterdays bear date with the mouldering antiquities of the

rest of the nations

– the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an

imperishable interest for alien persons,

for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor,

bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see,

and having seen once, by even a glimpse,

would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the

globe combined.

Even now, after a lapse of a year, the delirium of those days in

Bombay has not left me and I hope it never will."

 

 

 

ayurveda, Todd Caldecott <todd

wrote:

>

> that's because the quote is wrong

> "astrictive" should be "instructive"

>

> "India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human

> speech, the mother of history, grandmother of legend, and great

grand

> mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive

materials

> in the history of man are treasured up in India only."

>

> this is an apparently very common error on many "india" based

websites

> hopefully it gets corrected here