"India is still foreign to me, it's a familiar foreignness in some way, but it's still surprising. When you see a temple in India, you don't say, oh there's another temple, you say: "My God! How could anyone have had the imagination to do something so amazing!" It's never what you expect."
January 1, 1970
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendy_Doniger_O'Flaherty