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Spoken word with music
India: Finding Reality In Myth
In 1969, I became intensely interested in India through my reading of the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita. From the depth of the philosophy I thought Indians must be all wise and holy, far from the madness of the western world. My interest led to a correspondence with S. Ramnath in Calcutta, who had an equal, although more materialistic interest in the USA. At the time of our writing, I thought we would never meet. But as fate would have it, he visited the U.S. in 1976 and by 1977, we were married.
We made our first trip to India together in November, 1983. I was dazzled by the sights, sounds, colors, smells, spices, exotic food and music, and the Durga festival in progress, but I did not understand much about Indian life. In 1994, nearly eleven years later, we visited South India. We stayed in Madras with Ramnath’s father, R. Subramanian, whom I affectionately called, Pop.
India and I had both...
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