We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am always fascinated by India.
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.
India always inspires me.
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.
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
India is my motherland.
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
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.