States of silence...

...Bring up the bodies

Babur in London was written in the same spirit, one of genuine enquiry and curiosity, by a writer who had read, loved and understood the Baburnama: what might that conqueror have had to say to those who would spread fear today? It is not a frivolous question, but it has moved, with this silent, self-imposed censorship, into the category of the unanswerable — and more absurdly, into the category of questions that should be asked, but cannot be openly voiced, for fear of provoking blunt and uncomprehending violence.