Monday, December 27, 2010

Song of India?

In October of 1995 I traveled to India to view a total solar eclipse. I was excited about being in India. As a child I remembered watching a TV program about an Indian boy and his elephant. He would sing a song to his elephant. I remembered that song and when I got to India I hummed it for my Indian guide. He said he never heard the song and that it was a Hollywood invention. At that moment I decided that if it wasn’t an Indian song it would be before I left. At a village called Gato I assembled several children who were about to witness the eclipse and taught them the song!

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