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Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

The Spectator

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Books / India radiates kindly light across the East

‘Everywhere I could see India, yet I could not recognise it.’ So said India’s great national poet Rabindranath Tagore of South-East Asia, after...

30.08.2024 10

The Spectator

Christopher Harding

The man who got the West to fall in love with India’s sacred literature

The first European translation of the Bhagavad Gita, a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Lord Krishna, appeared in English in 1785. Strangely, this...

18.01.2024 30

The Spectator

Christopher Harding

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