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I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

India somehow constantly rivets and inspires me, and I feel very relieved to have come from this country which has a very 'lifeist' approach to living fully, no matter what one has or doesn't have.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

I am always fascinated by India.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.