Passage to India
“ You can’t have patriotic poetry of the ‘ India, my India” type, when it’s nobody’s India. ... India is such a vast country and believed by so many that no one culture can possess it. ... Symbolically, Aziz is trying to reveal that India can not be composed into a piece of poetry because it has such vast diversity. ... Nothing embraces the whole of India, nothing, nothing, and that was Akbars mistake. ... Akbar’s new religion that would “embrace the whole of India” is fairy tale notion. In a diverse area such as India, it is impossible for people to accomplish a universal religion.