On the Road

This is a chapter of travel and travelogue and describes the author’s encounters in various places and with various peoples, from India’s remote northeast and rural Bengal, through Israel, Italy, and Germany, to the people of Samoa in the Pacific and the Zapotecs of Teotitlan de Valle in Mexico. It is a commentary on the diversity of cultures across the world, but also an account of the underlying similarities of emotions and instincts across societies separated by continents and seas, with little overt interaction.