Selections from the intro to “the Cowboy and the Yogi: Ideals shared by India and America”
3 min readAug 18, 2021
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When I first came to the Bay Area, I knew only one thing about India: Its music was amazing. Critics would often refer to these astonishing structures of melody and rhythm as “ethnic music”, and of course I knew I was more likely to get hired playing at Indian restaurants…