โ€œWhat the thunder saidโ€: the influence of the Upaniแนฃad on TS Eliot's "Devastated Earth"

Since his college years TS Eliot had immersed himself in the study of the philosophy and thought of India. There Devastated land as well as his other writings, reflect this deep connection with oriental thought, in describing the crisis of the modern world the poet draws on Bhagavadgita and upanisad.