While I was in Thiruppudaimaruthur Bird Sanctuary (around the time of my birthday), we stayed in the house of a former chief justice of India, who was off in New Delhi for the time being. In the main room of the house was a picture of the judge’s son with former president Clinton (which everyone was very excited to show me, the token American). One day, the judge called, and when he found out that an American was staying in his rest house, he wanted to talk to me. I jammered my way through the telephone conversation, explaining the research that we were doing in his hometown and my reasons for coming to India. The next day, my birthday, he called me to wish me a happy birthday and to wish me a long life. The day after that, he sent a news team to film some of our research. An interview with Jayakumar and one with myself were aired on Indian national television. Wow.
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Wow.
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