“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West … Out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”

—  Jawaharlal Nehru

As quoted in Ambassador's Report (1954) by Chester Bowles, p. 59
Context: I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West … Out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Perhaps my thoughts and approach to life are more akin to what is called Western than Eastern, but India clings to me, as she does to all her children, in innumerable ways … I am a stranger and alien in the West. I cannot be of it. But in my own country also, sometimes I have an exile's feeling.

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Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister … 1889–1964

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