My journey to America constitutes an important phase in my life, philosophically. It is a part of my travel in time to discover the eternal concept of ' I ', in Sanskrit 'Aaham'. Throughout human civilisation a minuscule part of humans always debated the significance of ' I ' in the search of their identity. To me, being here is a stage in the continuous process of travel, within myself, in time. There are several affinities between my country, India and the United States of America. My present position does not allow me to discuss each one of them. Closing my eyes, I think of the following five relations between our two nations, which I find interesting and easy to describe.

The first and the most important of commonness is Democracy. The former the world's largest and the later the world's most powerful. There is a saying that the most powerful job in the world is that of the President of the United States of America and the most difficult is that of the Prime Minister of India. These two nations despite being multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic and multi-etc., have built up a strong and unique system of Democracy that has no parallel in any of the other nations of this planet.

Most of the earthlings are ignorant of the fact that it was India that was responsible for the discovery of the American continent. Remember, Christopher Columbus, the Italian from Spain? In the fifteenth century a rat race in Europe to discover a sea route to India made Columbus to set sail in search of India. The hope was to establish a trade route bypassing the Arab middlemen. Somewhere, down the line he lost his direction and reached the shores of America. According to him, America was India and the natives, Indian!

There is a forgotten man in history of both our nations. Marquis of Cornwallis -- Charles Cornwallis. It was this man who because of a strategic error lost the battle of York Town to George Washington and made the British lose America. The same man later in time defeated Tippu Sultan in the third Mysore War and brought my city Bangalore in South India under the British rule. This victory enabled the British to stem out the last major resistance in their ambition to conquer the whole of Indian subcontinent.

In the 1930's, a stable boy employed in the Mysore Palace named 'Sabu' was discovered as an actor by an Englishman to act in a film called "The Elephant Boy (1937)". This youngster later became a star in Hollywood and was famous as 'Mysore Sabu' world-wide. He acted in several films, the most famous of them is the original version of "The Jungle Book".

And, finally, it's I, ME and MYSELF !

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