The article focuses on the conference held at Cumberland Lodge in Great Britain under the theme Empire and Me as stated by Alastair Niven. It talks about a similar conference held at Shimla, India at a place where people like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah met to talk. The author speaks about flying to Istanbul to attend conferences on word literature. It also discusses the works of poet Kalidasa.