Geoffrey Moorhouse
English journalist and author (1931–2009)
Geoffrey Moorhouse FRGS, FRSL, D.Litt (29 November 1931 – 26 November 2009) was an English journalist and author.
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- I first fell under the spell of cricket, as every other small boy will have done, by batting and bowling on the nearest available space the moment I got home from school.
- The Best-Loved Game (1979).
- "No other country has lived with so complicated a past so equably, assimilating everything that has happened to it, obliterating naught, so that not even the intricate histories of European states have produced such a rich pattern as that bequeathed by the Mauryas, the Ashokas, the Pahlavas, the Guptas, the Chalykyas, the Hoysalas, the Pandyas, the Cholas, the Mughals, and the British - to identify a few of the people that have shaped India's inheritance. "
"Religion, flourishes here as it does nowhere else. Other lands may surrender themselves totally to a particular faith, but in India most creeds are deeply rooted and acknowledged fervently. Virtually the whole population practices some form of devotion: the Indian without the slightest feeling for the divine, without a spiritual dimension to his life, is exceedingly rare."
Incomparable and inimitable she is, India is also our great paradigm."- Om: an Indian Pilgrimage - By Geoffrey Moorhouse p. 15 -16
