To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.