If my article "A Collision of Cultures: Some Western Interpretations of the Indian Theatre" (Bharucha 1984) were as "reductive, incomplete, and inaccurate" as Schechner claims, I fail to see why he should respond to it with so much passion and rancor. A few lines would have been sufficient to dismiss the apparent ignorance of my piece. On re-reading my essay in relation to Schechner's response, I believe that what is actually at stake in our confrontation is not just my interpretation (or misinterpretation) of his performance theory. What really disturbs me are the values and perspectives underlying his theory-they amount, in my opinion, to a naive and unexamined ethnocentricity which undermines Schechner's status as a serious and responsible interculturalist. In this reply, I hope to illumine our philosophical differences; but first, a few clarifications are necessary. Schechner points out my one "decisive error of fact" concerning Grotowski's visit to the Kalamandalam. Ironically, Schechner himself was the source of my information. In his essay "From Ritual to Theatre and Back," he specifies that "Grotowski has visited India on several occasions, the first in 1956-57, when he also traveled to China and Japan." (Schechner 1977, 84) In his reply to my essay, Schechner "confirms" that Grotowski did not visit India until 1968. I am confused by this conflicting information, but acknowledge my mistake in associating Grotowski's reported 1956-57 trip to India with his later visit to the Kalamandalam. *