If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.
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.
Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
I am always fascinated by India.