As an undergraduate student at Michigan State, I studied Asian Theatre History, and one of my favorite professors was C.C. Mehta, of the University of Baroda in Mumbai. We had to read the Mahabarata, a great epic poem, which had Varuna and Arjuna as characters. I remember thinking that this was the source of my brother’s name – Arunas. I also was intrigued by Hindu Aesthetic theory -Rasa- as one of mys sister’s has this name. These realizations have given me a strong sense of kinship to the Indian people.
Jurate Burns