The man who owns the building I am staying in was a Commodore in the Indian Navy, and his uncle was head of the Indian Navy. When I stepped out the morning of my first day I heard his welcoming voice rise from behind his living room overlooking the front garden. We had a long talk about Indian history as his servant poured us tea. His servants name is Bickki and he talks to him in an entirely different tone of voice than he talks to me. It’s hard for me, an American and a Bahai, who knows in my… Continue

Cricket is the most popular sport in India and on the plane I watched a movie called Victory,a Ballywood sports flick about a cricket superstar from a small village. He becomes a great hero in the little desert village where he still lives with his aging father and sister, but then he starts getting all these big offers to do endorsements for products in the big city of Mumbai (Bombay). His agent, a guy named, Andy, who is the films antagonist, makes him very rich but makes him move from the… Continue