Tell Me The Weather and I'll Tell The Man by Nirad C. Chaudhary Summary
Neeraj Chaudhary is essay 'Tell Me the Weather and I'll Tell the Man' has been taking from his book, "A Passage of England". He had longed to see England since his childhood. He visited England for five weeks, this unable him to write the book 'A passage to England'. This is an expression of sensation to be carefully distinguished from emotions of what he experienced. Chaudhary did not consult diary on notes for writing this book. He did not note write down his experiences is during is Europe visit. He employed the roses of recalling the sensations in tranquality. Chaudhary's 'Timeless England.' He set the Timeless England against 'Timeless Indian'.
When Chaudhary went to England, his mind was burdened with a great load of books-derived notions about England. He had built up a fairy comprehensive and homogeneous picture of the country and its people. He had also a knowledge of the economic, social and political troubles of England. It had been broadcast to the world 40 years before his visit to England.
During his visit to England, he could not know about the existence of England people due to newspapers strike. In spite of the main changes on the surface of life in Britain, Chaudhary was overwhelmed with continuity of the age-old historical tradition in English life. Today's England was very much like the England of history. Chaudhary noticed the community more than the break.
The Historical personality of the English people has basically reminded unchanged inspit far reching charges. Chaudhary felt the striking contrast between the historical personality of India and that of England are different. The face of England remains smiling.
In contrasting India and England in 'A passage to England', Chaudhary shows his partially to England. He is not fair to India. He has confessed that an emotional relationship exited between him and England since childhood.
Chaudhary calls England country which was the home and shelter of his body and spirit. He criticses English weather. It can be very Provoking especially if one is intent on giving about one's business.
After a few days stay in England Chaudhary becomes aware of the class alfiliations of a fair number of Englishmen. To Chaudhary India is more like a continent than a country where many languages and regional culture abound. In India people wear dresses of different types. Chaudhary could not see the masses of people in England. He could see very few beautiful and well dressed women. English man love silence. He saw unending steams of people giving silently along Oxford Street.
English man keep their work and social life separate and they do not disclose their position in the world. They do not desire to collect money. Love making is an easily deservable activity in the west. He saw love making very popular in western society.
In England Chaudhary found that the welfare state was a government which was trying to promote the welfare of the people and making contributions to it. The existence of the welfare state in England made Chaudhary to take a real view of their contemporary existence and future. He points out that the welfare state can ensure happiness when it is not stagnant.
Chaudhary found unabridgeable climate difference between the East and the West. This difference effected the temperaments of the people of the East and West. People from the tropics require Light and Warmth. The people of the cold climates require cold and cloudiness to awaken their sense of actuality and they fed the same fanciful effect when it becomes usually hot for them.
Chaudhary was deeply impressed with the close affinity existing in buildings and surroundings in England. The English houses were merge gradually into the land scape. First there was the building, then the terrace, after that the formal garden, then the English garden, next the park and last of the wide countryside. The country houses in India, are not related to the surroundings and the human geography of the country.
In England people go to the forests, in search of peace and sanity and freedom from terror. There the forests are peaceful. Chaudhary is unjust to India about the importance of Indian villages. Forests have always been regarded as the above of peace in India. In India for centuries, the forests have been giving shelter to the peasants in the time of anarchy.
Chaudhary calls London has a historical personality which has absorbed all its past, near and distant, in its present to him London's modernity is old fashioned, but it is still living and creative. It is old but it has not ceased to grow. According to Chaudhary the immense size of India has not brought about diversity. The difference of climate and weather has shaped different modes of exercising individual liberty in the East and West.
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