Sunday, March 8, 2020

Indian and Western Literature

There is not the least likeness between the Aryan and the Greek dramas; rather the dramas of Shakespeare resemble to a great extent the dramas of India. 
So the conclusion may also be drawn that Shakespeare is indebted to Kalidasa and other ancient Indian dramatists for all his writings, and that the whole Western literature is only an imitation of the Indian. 

             - Swami Vivekananda, 
               At Paris Congress of History of Religions 


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