Baba asked Kiran Bhat:

I see that you are very well travelled... do you think it is possible to have a global perspective as a writer, without travel, if you live in a cosmopolitan and diverse city like London, Toronto, New York, Berlin etc.?

Kiran Bhat Interesting question. I personally believe the globe is inside of all of us, and our ability to connect and think globally comes from our ability to choose to view humans innately for what they are, rather than seeing them for how we choose to perceive them. If the global is the individual, and the individual becomes the cosmic, then the cosmic is the global.

At the same time, I think travelling made it much easier for me to start to see humans in a deeper context, because I got to see so many shades of the human experience. I think a city like New York or London is great if you want to see all of the skin shades of the world, but diversity isn't just skip deep. It's also about being formed in all of the different ways humans can be, and I think to see that, one has to have travelled.

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