About the book: 1988 / The author of the book is a Latvian Indologist who devoted many years to studying the work of R. Tagore and lived for a long time in his homeland in West Bengal, working in Vishvabharati University, founded by the poet. Observing the life of the Indian people as if from the inside, he was able to vividly talk about his impressions. The book provides information about the social development of India in recent years, and about government policy in the economic and socio-cultural fields, and about the life of Indians, their attitude to nature, religion.