English
1. INTRODUCTION
I have for a long time observed man on his treadmill. Having lived modestly I finally met with success as a writer.
This way I traveled around the world. I mixed and interacted with the great intellectuals of my generation. I was admired and known by all, until the day one of my books was judged too radical.
This brought my downfall. A warrant of arrest was issued, I fled India. Fifteen years of Humiliations. Fifteen years of sufferings which have brought the ruin upon my life. No friends left on whom to rely. Only my wife remained by my side in those times of mistrust and conspiracy.
Now, having reached the twilight period of my life, I have relinquished all hopes and attempts of justifying myself in the eyes of men or even expecting my redemption from them.
In this loneliness, I may be more happy and content than most of them. I write these pages alone with myself, without any other desire than that of an old man who has renounced this world.
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