All history is contemporary history.
What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.
India lives in several centuries at the same time.
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.
History is rooted in the future
Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
