But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

No one is India.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up.

One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.