India: A Wounded Civilization: pg. 17

Out of a superficial reading of the past, then, out of the sentimental conviction that India is eternal and forever revives, there comes not a fear of further defeat and destruction, but an indifference to it. India will somehow look after itself; the individual is freed of all responsibility. And within this larger indifference there is the indifference of a friend: it is madness, Srinivas concludes, for him to think of himself as the artist's keeper.