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...Aldous Huxley:

"A culture cannot be discriminatingly accepted, much less be modified, except by persons who have seen through it--by persons who have cut holes in the confining stockade of verbalized symbols and so are able to look at the world and, by reflection, at themselves, in new and relatively unprejudiced way.... A man who knows that there have been many cultures, and that each culture claims to be the best and truest of all, will find it hard to take too seriously the boastings and dogmatizings of his own tradition."

And again from Keyser:

"The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it."

Thanks to Mr. Balvant K. Parekh from Mumbai, India, Andrea Johnson and I experienced a variety of perspectives during an 18-day visit to western India this past fall. This special issue of ETC pays tribute to Mr. Parekh and represents a small step toward "keeping" these perspectives by documenting them within these pages. We hope this...

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