Unknown Artist Apple Tree with Red Fruit painting

Unknown Artist Apple Tree with Red Fruit paintingGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and Eurydice paintingCarl Fredrik Aagard The Deer Park painting
on the subject of shame. In the original, a husband suspects his wife of infidelity and sets a trap to catch her out. He returns a few hours later to spy on her. He is kneeling to look through the keyhole of their front door. Then he feels a presence behind him, turns without rising, and there she is, looking down at him with revulsion and disgust. This tableau, he kneeling, she looking down, is the Sartrean archetype. But in the Indian version the kneeling husband felt no presence behind him; was surprised by the wife; stood to face her on equal terms; blustered and shouted; until she wept, he embraced her, and they were reconciled.
"You say I should be ashamed," Chamcha said bitterly to Zeenat. "You, who are without shame. As a matter of fact, this may be a national characteristic. I begin to suspect that Indians lack the necessary moral refinement for a true sense of tragedy, and therefore cannot really understand the idea of shame."
Zeenat Vakil finished her whisky. "Okay, you don't have to say