India's progressive emergence on the world stage, in terms unimaginable just a few decades ago, obliges us to reconsider is nutured by the West for over two thousand years: a prestigious image maybe, but also grealty reductive. as the privileged home of occult knowledge, ecstasy and asceticism, or ---quite the opposite--of fabulous riches and voluptous pleasures. Rather than getting to know India, by West has preferred to dream of it: one result has been that ...
