" there for years, weren’t you?’ ‘Two,’ said Steve. ‘Two wonderful years.’ ‘With his first wife,’ said Jean, poker-faced. ‘I wanted to talk to you about it last time, but I didn’t want to sound like a fucking stereotype,’ said Steve, giving Chandra a meaningful look. ‘I went there in ’68 to find myself.’ Chandra remembered seeing hippies in the sixties. His parents had told him never to go near them, that they were all drug addicts, the dregs of the West. It was only when he came to England and actually spoke with them that he overcame his fear and realised they were essentially anthropologists. "

― Rajeev Balasubramanyam , Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss