Namaste New Zealand (3) - Series One, Episode Three

Cooking is such an important part of Chettinad cuisine, that back home in India, the kitchen is often one the biggest rooms in the house.

– Presenter Kadambari Raghukumar

I can feel the excitement of going back to India building already. I feel like I go there, and I'm really enabled to be my true self and be inspired again. To see how that translates back to a Western audience...I think that's really important — to keep walking between those two spaces, and find new ways of connecting them...

– Visual artist Tiffany Singh

I tell the children that meditation, scriptures and prayer are very important. First you have to do that, then you learn the weapons. Only then can you become a soldier.

– Sikh martial arts teacher Harjot Singh Jaswal

My philosophies between my arts practice and and my spiritual practice are really closely aligned. The way that I make is very labour-intensive and repetitive . . . so the process itself becomes like a meditation.

– Visual artist Tiffany Singh, early in this episode

When your parents have sacrificed so much to make sure that their children can be successful and have a really secure future, and to know that going into the performing arts is somewhat insecure, and there's a lot of unknown variables....it does take a lot of time to kind of warm people to that idea.

– Theatremaker Ahilan Karunaharan on telling his parents he was pursuing the performing arts, early in this episode