Quotes About Kathmandu

The people are more modest than Americans and Europeans. So much so that, as soon as I reached Kathmandu, I bought local clothes. Loose shirts and vests and baggy pants that gathered at the ankles and probably made me look like a giant genie.

The great irony was that, while I was being portrayed as a monster, I was in Khatmandu with my children, doing soup kitchens for Tibetan refugees, using all the money from my records to feed three hundred people a day, and working with monks connected to the Sammye Ling Buddhist centre in Scotland.

I was born in Begusarai in Bihar. Then I spent 10 years in Kolkata and later hopped from Kathmandu to Delhi and, finally, Mumbai.