The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.