This is the title of my planned narrative.
Nothing too complicated,
with the halo and suggestion of the hypergeographical and hagiographical references intact.
India is the heart, Gregory David Roberts
My artist friend from Savannah,
Stephanie Usery,
has shown me the actuality of the religious images of Catholic piety,
particulary the images of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
She was interest in the portrait of an Indian man, as the image of the Sacred Heart.
That image I saw all over Southern India, in Goa and Kerala.
It is the image of god as son and mother.
For me it is an essential image that Chirstianity has contributed to Indian civilisation.
In the oceanic proliferation of Hindu imagery many of the dreams of humanity are revealed.
But there is something so characteristic about the values and culture of the heart among the Indians and the currency of this Christian religious image in Indian Society that gives focus to the cords that bind the heart of India, making it indeed,
a Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Question. What did Gandi teach India about the heart?
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