again, you are used to doing quite a lot of travel — so you've been in england much more perhaps than you're used to. yes, yeah. ijust wonder if you have been led to reflect on your feelings on england. i want you now to delve into your own past — you were brought up in rochester, a small town in the south—east of england, in kent. your parents came from india. you were the first child born in england in yourfamily. how do you now feel? how do you sort of look at rochester and kent and do you feel a warm glow or do you feel that you're a very long way from it? i feel a bit of both. i mean, i have mixed feelings about the time growing — it was a very picturesque place to grow up. i mean, we were by the river, there was a peaceful castle and cathedral. but at the time — and we're talking about the late �*60s, and the early �*70s — growing up as a kid and then moving into puberty, it was kind of — it was very isolating in a lot of ways,