Showing posts with label Amitav Ghosh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amitav Ghosh. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

Open Letter to a Friend

Hi,

We had talked about hypocrisy in people during one of our long talks. You and I were so strongly critical of duplicity and hypocrisy and we’d said that it was the first turn-off for us in a person. I still remember you saying “how can people do this, be like this?” 

I recently read a couple of essays which brought that conversation to my mind. The first was George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’.