For someone who believes that internal silence is the key to peace and happiness and even God, professor Anil Vidyalankar talks a lot.
We meet in Yokohama's Futamatagawa, where he stays with Sanskrit specialist Iwao Nakajima. "We met first in 1979, when I came here as a representative of India's National Council of Educational Research and Training. Together with Bharat Bhushan Vidyalankar, we produced the first Basic Sanskrit English-Japanese Dictionary. And toward the end of this year, an introductory textbook in Sanskrit."
Anil, a widower of 10 years who lives with his son and daughter-in-law in New Delhi, describes Japan as his second home. He makes regular visits in spring and autumn, this time arriving May 28 "to meet old friends, and make new ones, like you." (I liked that.)