A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

October 22, 2006

Few books, even today, render the relations between Moslems and Hindus, the east and the west with the depth and sensitivity you will find here. Few books communicate the sense of what it is to be demeaned and oppressed. It is hard to forget Dr. Aziz. Ferguson, Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, and the sounds in those Marabar Caves. I hope you enjoy and end with many open questions.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."
–E.M. Forster

Portrait of E.M. Forster by Fred Stein, courtesy of the estate of Fred Stein.

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Satellite Salon

Arlington, Virginia Mary Bullock, Host November 5, 2006

Welcome to a second season of Salons, where I hope we may continue to find community in discovering connections between literary art and the familiar events of life in these challenging times. If you are receiving this announcement for the first time, your name was likely suggested by one who attended last year's Salons, and you would be very welcome to join us for the discussions we plan to have this year. E.M. Forster's A Passage to India , a novel both timely and timeless, focuses on a community of people in British colonial India will surely remind us of attitudes and behavior we observe today, as age-old tension and suspicion among disparate cultures bring us to new grief in this century.

Mary Bullock: marybullock@maxinegreene.org