@Natanson 13 June 2021 more from that month

Meeting with India How did India start for me? It started with colorful Indian films, their original songs and dances, where you empathize with the main characters and resent the villains. With the film by Dmitry Bulnygin about his travel through India, which plunged into the atmosphere so much that, leaving the cinema on a snow-covered Siberian street, I involuntarily turned my head in search of cows, phlegmatically wandering between the fast-moving and loudly honking vehicles of various sizes. With the fascinating stories of our friend, who visited Goa in the early 2000s and took us with him. But most likely, it started with the moment when, having transferred to a flight from Zurich to Mumbai (paradoxically, it turned out to be cheaper to fly to India from Moscow via Europe than directly from Siberia), we found ourselves in neighboring seats with an Indian woman who smiled affably and asked: "Where are you from? What is your name?" I really love this childlike spontaneity, no matter how many foreigners Indians meet, they always try to at least find out from which country a friend came. Perhaps it was at this moment that I realized that India had greeted us like a loving mother who had waited a long time and had already set a magnificent table. #india