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WILLIAMS-IN-INDIA
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Breaking Through One Boundary

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We were in Bombay for like a week, same things; meetings with officials, business, culture, arts, government. Then we had like three days, four days, to reach Kashmir for the final three weeks of reflection. So now you’ve got the whole structure. Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Bombay, that’s it. There were sets of formal meetings so […]
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Do you remember going to the Zorastrian wedding, the ceremony of fire? We had this credo which was learning by experience, but the subtitle was “uncomfortable learning.” And in retrospect, whether it’s the steel works or the Zorastrian wedding or the home stays, meeting the president, Professor Gaudino put more structure into it than was […]
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Right at the end we went up to Kashmir for about a week or so. Actually we had cottages around a golf course. We really enjoyed it except there were various animals grazing on the golf course. And we had a series of seminars talking about our experiences and it was interesting, the group really […]
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In Kashmir, right up against the Pakistani lines, the Gurkhas used to pass through these caverns in the morning and Miller and I used to get these horses and ride down through the Gurkha camp yelling, “Gurkha leeha leeha!” which means “Gurkhas are coming!” and then they’d open up the gates. It was wonderfully idyllic […]
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One of the reasons this was so powerful is that Bob, in this program, was less of a teacher as we understand that, and more like a coach, an athletic coach. He was there every day with them constantly preparing them over a long period of time, the way you do if you’re on the […]
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I mean this is a group of students — everybody is taking shots together, we’re going to India together, and I would say we spent just gobs of time in Gaudino’s living room. I’d say there was actually extraordinary intimacy among the students and as relations with Bob Gaudino, I’d say, as well. He always […]
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I can’t remember who coined the term, “Guru-Ji” “Ji,” it’s a suffix you attach to the back of a word that denotes venerability. It’s a Hindi thing, Sanskrit derived. Like “Our Guru.” “Guru-Ji.”
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