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Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.