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

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

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

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

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