Between mid century and the end of the 1800's, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study.
Dissatisfied with the obvious parallels between India and China, Mr Sharma sees a cultural kinship between India and Brazil, countries united in their “late dining habits”, “colourful personalities” and “casual informality”.
In the words she left behind, it seems as if she was most eager to be gone, away from a world that dissatisfied her, that had failed her after a half-century of living.