Had a great time this past Saturday at the annual Howard County Library benefit, whose theme this year was "Along the Silk Road". The whole library was decked out in colorful fabric, with eastern music and the smells of Indian food wafting through the book stacks. I gave a talk, "Capturing India through Fiction," which I'd just delivered the previous day at the India Studies program at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The difference was that this time, I had a somewhat larger audience - 170 people - and what a fantastic audience it was! Pulled out all the stops - even showed them my Bollywood video. Here's a blog entry describing the event by Roberta Rood, who was in attendance.