Analysis Of Octavio Paz Of Mexico

Introduction

Writer Octavio Paz Of Mexico, visited India in 1951 as an employee of the Mexican embassy, as Mexico tried to develop their relations with India after it gained independence in 1947.
On receiving his transfer letter in Paris, where he was formerly employed, Paz gives us an insight in his essay that he was devastated to leave Paris. After an elaborately modern and intellectual description of Paris as a city that appealed the dream of the west, Octavio Paz insists that the news of his move to India came as a sudden change in his life. The essayist was convinced that his seniors in the Mexican embassy issued his transfer as a punishment for his behavior in a conference that might’ve been seen as ‘improper’.
It took him one full page to convey his beautified vision of Paris, but he saw fit to write a whole book, on the multiple spheres of India, which was his next destination.
This is where, as a reader, especially of Indian origin, we start to question his choice of those multiple spheres. The outside view of
If the only evidence the occident have of the orient nations is from texts written by colonialists and travelers whose ultimate aim at their time was to analyze the eastern counties, then modern day reviewers have no other option as their study material. Still, our essayist Octavio Paz attempts to break away from such predetermined spheres that he chooses as his areas of interest. Surely the country India has risen above old philosophies in practicality, but deep down the older generations are still aware of the religious scripture that have been a major area of teachings throughout the Indian history. Thus it is justified of any orientalist accusations to cover up the religious literature and culture that is predominant in the mass