Title, May 10 -- By Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy

What The West Should Learn From India

Author: Walter J. Lindner

Year: 2024

Pages: 279

Price: Rs. 799

Publisher: Juggernaut Books

The year was 1977. A tall, young, lean man with a backpack arrived in New Delhi from Germany. He loved Indian music, particularly Ravi Shankar's sitar. He was a musician and composer himself. He had read the book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. He had a romanticised vision of India, and had expected to see "an Indian meditating under almost every Banyan tree, anticipated to hear the sound of sitars and the smell of incense sticks in every second street corner."

Contrary to what he had envisaged, the deafening din of the streets and the crowds of humanity on the ...