The culture-its excess-really suited me. I always liked Indian miniature painting much more than Renaissance painting. I didn't see what was so great about Rembrandt or Michelangelo. I liked paintings where there were 10,000 people in the scene and elephants and horses! I liked the carvings on Indian temples so much more than the simple architectural outlines.

On the cultural aspect of India. - Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus