INDIA; WHY WHITHER? Sitting in transit at Heathrow, waiting for my flight to Mumbai, I am caught by the question: Why, exactly, am I going so expectantly to India. True, I had lived my adult life as a Canadian, in a land of myriad cultures, in particular, Montreal and Toronto, where the varied cultures, including those from the Indian sub-continent, are on the verge of fusion. So, I have great interest in the lands from which our immigrants become Canadians. But this, I sensed, was not the full story for me. So here, as my mind rambles, is my full why. Caribbean born to an African mum and an Anglo African dad, raised deep and wide in a full range of Trinidad towns, neighbourhoods and villages, Indianess was always a pervading influence on my infancy,
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