ज्याला आपण 'We are one caste , one disease and one religion' असे नाव दिले आहे. JS: It is a good question, I mean in a way it was based on serendipity; that this was a community that I knew about, where I knew the people, where I knew I could go back, and where there were interesting kinds of transformations taking place, particularly when I did my PhD fieldwork in 1999- 2000, which was also a time when leprosy was supposed to be on the way out and they wanted to declare leprosy as being over by the millennium. So, I mean that was part of what drew me there and drew me into that particular kind of fieldwork.
JS: खूप चांगला प्रश्न आहे. ही वसाहत माझ्या आठवणीतील अनेक महत्वाच्या गोष्टींपैकी ची एक आहे कारण मी माझ्या शैक्षणिकदृष्ट्या, सामाजिकदृष्ट्या, वैचारिकदृष्ट्या व एकंदर माझ्या व्यक्तिमत्व विकासाचादृष्टीने या वसाहती बरोबर, येथील लोकांना बरोबर, येथील कुष्ठरोगबरोबर व येथील एकंदर परिस्थिती बरोबर बांधलो गेलेलो आहे.