Sands of time and the missing future tense of Indian languages

[Leila]

Sands of time and the missing future tense of Indian languages In a piece he wrote a few decades ago, the Hindi writer Agyeya had apparently said, “Indians understand the sweep of time but not its immediacy.” The person recalling this brilliant line in the light of a new biography of the writer, wasn’t able to place where and when he had read it but it had inscribed itself on to his memory.