I first read Jawaharlal Nehru's discovery of India soon after graduation. At that time I found it difficult to follow. I went back to the book a few years later and read it with great interest and enjoyment.
Writing about the contacts that existed between ancient India and Greece, Nehru narrates a Greek account of a letter written by emperor Ashoka's father Bindusara to king Antiochus of Greece, asking him to buy and send him sweet wine, dried figs and a Sophist philosopher. Antiochus replied: "we shall send you the figs and wine, but in Greece the laws forbid a Sophist to be sold."
Well, certain things are not for sale!
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