A passage to India

One of the main themes I  took away from this book that I believe the author was asking, was whether or not  the English and Indians could ever be friends. This question is best represented by Aziz and Fielding, in the begging they dont think that they can be freinds. But after they do become friends they have a falling out ulitimately because of their cultural differences.  Even after they have some sort of reconciliation they still can not find it in them to friends. They decide in the end that perhapse they could be friends at a different time or maybe if they were not in India. There friendship could never work while India was still under the control of England. In this case their cultural differences were to abundant to get past for them to be friends.