“ Intoxicated by the heady wine of newly acquired power, fearsome like wild animals who see no difference between good and evil, slaves to women, insane in their lust, drenched in alcohol from head to foot, without any norms of ritual conduct, unclean … dependant on material things, grabbing other people’s land and wealth by hook our by crook … the body their self, its appetites their only concern - such is the image of western demon in Indian eyes.
— Swami Vivekananda via Watch this man by Pankaj Mishra, LRB Vol. 33 No. 21 ยท 3 November 2011
