Siddhartha novel book review5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Acutely aware that men of every generation are molded by the events and experiences which occur during their own lifetimes, Babu recognizes that though he and his father have shared many events, their views of these events are vastly different, in each case conditioned by their separate, though sometimes intersecting, pasts. Dam, reminisces about his father's life, trying to understand him-at least to the extent that sons can ever understand their fathers. ![]() In this sensitively imagined and astutely observed novel, Babu, son of veterinarian Dr. ![]() That is the irony that we should have learned to be more human only when they became less so." We saw the honesty of the tribal people as stupidity, and through that we taught them our own deviousness. We were insular and narrow-minded, with a false sense of superiority when we first came here. "We were not perfect, we are not perfect now and never will be. ![]()
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