Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The messenger of Death dragged to hell the soul of the one who had litened to the Bhagavata whereas the messenger of God led to paradise the soul of the other who had been to the house of prostitution. [...] It is sex gangsterism and the fashion of the upper ten thousand that reign supreme to the dismay of the poor parents in the country-side who supply the wherewithal of such a costly entetainment to their simple children in schools and colleges of the towns and the cities. [...] The Sanskrit culture necesarily the privilege of the few and the learned was being rinterpreted in the language of the people by singers and artists who suddenly realized that a nation's security must be based upon the support and understanding of the people at large. [...] The art in the West had acquired great renown and the court at Delhi was aware of the reputation of the great masters in the West for some of the tallest among the court painters of Akbar were copared to these masters from foreign lands. [...] The gorgeous colours and the supreme decorative quality of the illuminated pages illustrating the themes of life or of heroism from the history of the Sassanians or the great Persian poets had but a fleeting moment in the annals of Asiatic art.