Hayat (Arabic: "Life")

 This is a video in which one savors a little more of the spice of Kiran Ahluwalia's personality, or her personal sensibility.  

The setting is India, an place which certainly encompasses within it entire worlds.  So the application of the term "hayat" or "life" for the video or setting is well deserved.  There's probably nothing you won't find in India; it seems to cover the entire gamut.  In my travels, I made a connection between Italy and India, which may seem odd to some.  But I got the sense that both contained all of life: high, low, and everything in between.  That impression evoked for me the mental image of roses growing out of manure.  I hope that doesn't offend anyone.  It's not meant to be a scatological condemnation of either culture.  It simply means that both countries have widely disparate and contradictory elements that, rather than impairing the spiritual health of the country,  instead somehow contributed to the intrinsic spirit of each nation.

Also, in terms of Kiran Ahluwalia expressing herself as a free woman in a society where gender norms are less fluid, well -- women all over the world are in a steep uphill battle against the atavistic and intransigent misogynism that's so prevalent across the globe.  I applaud Kiran's independence both as a woman and an artist.