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A Promised Land: Obama mentioned he had never been to India before his Presidential visit in 2010, but India had always held a remarkable place in my mind. Former US President Barack Obama said that he has always held an exceptional place for India thanks to his childhood years spent in Indonesia taking note of the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and therefore the Mahabharata.
“Maybe it had been its (India's) sheer size, with one-sixth of the world's population, near about two thousand distinct ethnic groups, and quite a several languages spoken,” he wrote in his latest book 'A Promised Land'.
In his book, A Promised Land, Obama has also written about his fascination with India.
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Obama says he had never been to India before his Presidential visit in 2010, but the country had "always held a special place in my imagination".
Further, he explains that the reason he fascinates India.
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"He had spent a part of his childhood in Indonesia taking note of the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, also due to his interest in Eastern religions, and because of a group of Pakistani and Indian college friends who'd taught him to cook dahl and keema and turned me on to Bollywood movies,” Obama writes.
In "A Promised Land", Obama gives discrimination of his journey from the 2008 election campaign to the top of his first term with the daring Abbottabad (Pakistan) raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
-PTC News-