2004 in India - Arts and Literature

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“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world’s inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)