Passage To India
Essays

David Lean's A Passage to India (1984) was based on E.M. Forsters's 1924 novel of the same name, and examines the themes of racism, sexuality and colonialism in British India of the 1920s, which is already seething with discontent and demands for independence. Its setting is the fictional province of Chandrapore, where a strange event occurs in some magical caves that leaves the perceptions and memories of all concerned highly distorted. At the start of the movie, an Anglicized and Westernized Muslim physician, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed

Considering Technology and the Soul in Walt Whitman's "Passage to India"

Colonial India is a place of mystery and subterfuge. Situations of racial and ethnic strife, occurring long before the development of a British colonial India create a landscape that is worsened in some ways by the…

E.M. Forster's book A Passage to India is addressed here, based on how it relates to globalization. Even though it is a work of fiction, the book can be strongly connected to what has taken place in real life. Some of the themes in the book are still taking place in society today, especially in countries where globalization is not as popular of an endeavor.