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Writings on India

In 1931 the drug-abusing poet and painter Henri Michaux travelled in India, resulting in the book Un Barbare en Asie, a barbarian in Asia. His guiding sentiment was that “a passerby, with his innocent eye, is able sometimes to lay his finger on the centre.” Michaux had his fair share of misconceptions, but also moments of insight, predicting against conventional opinion that when India was free of foreign rule

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