Indians on Vacation was inspired by his travelling experiences with his partner. He wanted to use the idea of travel as a gateway to discussing more serious issues. These were people who had left their homes and had very little other than what they were carrying. To have to walk through that those hundreds of people who had been displaced and didn t know where they were going to go or how they were going to get there with your little suitcases and your little happy shirts and khaki pants was pretty awful, he told Shelagh Rogers on You want to stop and help if you can. That s the first impulse. That is the kind of travel that makes you question who you are, what you ve done as a human being.