I met and fell in love with Rabindranath Tagore as a 16 year old US exchange student in Italy!  Gitanjali was the jewel in a book given to me by a young Italian man very dear to me. Such is the joy and complexity of intercultural encounter that the gift remains among my most treasured.  Fr. Clooney, have you read of Dom Bede Griffith's encounter with Hinduism's soul?