 What is it about India that inspires so many to discover it, to try and understand it? It seems to possess that elusive quality of a long ago legend, which in turn possesses countless others to sift through its very many nuances, explore the myth and the vision only to discover that it is real, present and also pervasive. I don't think that in India one ever feels this ostracized if you're a foreigner. I think Indians are largely used to seeing people from all walks of life and the whole history of India has been a succession of foreigners coming and setting down in this country. So I think it's very much in the mind of the Indian psyche that to be open to foreign influences and foreign look at life etc. I feel fortunate, I feel privileged to be in India, to be a foreigner in India that's been able and has been allowed to make it my home. I miss the noises and the smells. Everything's very acute here and once you get sort of hooked on that it's really hard to enjoy other places. It's the diversity and the richness of India's tradition as well as modernity that is what's so exciting about it. I mean it's often said that we live in many centuries at the same time, even millennia and that is one of the greatest things about India. That's something that I love and that I miss tremendously when I'm away from this country. So we've all integrated. You know there's more of the West in India, there's more of India in the West there's so much more interaction with the entire world on all levels whether it's business or craft or tourism or education there's so much more travelling that people from outside hear, people from here, outside I think that that's the biggest change in my experience. You know I have thousands of old spring talions all over the world and the love, the respect, the regard they give me as their old teacher is something so heartwarming and I don't think other countries the people of other countries would give that in so much abundance of love and affection as our Indian students give to their teachers. India is a very good training for becoming wider than just one's own nation. There is an aspect of beyond nationality in India. There is something which is from the soul quality, from the inner quality there is something which I have not encountered anywhere. If you walk around New York you see all nations represented there it's also something of international ambience. But this is kind of external internationalism. India has an inner universal or international strength and power to which people are attracted. They feel it is not cancelling their own nationality but widening it. The idea that it is India lives on non-subdued, unconquered, perhaps even nondescapable inspiring, inviting yet more to come and to discover to understand and then to call her their own for ultimately home is where the heart is.