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Oprah sees calm beneath chaos in India

Today, Oprah Winfrey is one of the most recognisable faces in the world, a much loved and admired talk show host and a woman who has touched the lives of millions of people.
On the third day of the Jaipur Literature Festival, Oprah Winfrey was in conversation with Barkha Dutt
- Asked about the one thing that struck her about India, Oprah told Ms. Dutt that there were, in fact, three. ‘My first impression was that of chaos! And then, I started noticing the underlying calm.' The other thing she admired and respected was the all-pervasive sense of karma and spirituality. “People here don't just talk religion, they live it.”
- Another thing that struck her as wonderful was the Indian sense of family and tradition. ‘I remember asking Abhishek and Aishwarya [Bachchan] on my show, I asked them — How do you still live with your parents, what's that all about? And Abhishek replied, ‘How do you not — what's that all about?' It's a glorious thing that in this country, families take care of each other.'
- This is her first visit to India, and already, Oprah has seen the paradoxes that make it a ‘complex and contradictory' country. She has visited families in the slums of Mumbai, dined with the glitterati and royalty and stayed at an ashram with widows in Vrindavan.
- ‘I came here with an open mind and an expanded heart', she says, ‘And it has been one of the greatest life experiences for me. It makes you feel like you are in the centre of something bigger and greater than yourself. Your humanity is expanded in a way that won't be possible in any other place.'

Personality:

Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist.
She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century,the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire.
- She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.