Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington (ed. Canongate Books, 2010) - ISBN: 9780857860279