On India’s darkling plain

The conflicts and controversies over the institution of Lokpal remind me of the lines of poet Mathew Arnold: “And we are here as on a darkling plain/Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/Where ignorant armies clash by night.” I wonder whether all the fretting and fuming reflect anything other than the clash of ignorant groups who remain in the dark about the underlying reality of the degraded mindscape of India and its polluted environment.

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