Product Description

An wry account, by an Indian, of the quest for spiritual enlightenment that caused many people from the consumer societies of the West to go to India and seek fulfillment in the teachings and practices of Hinduism. Gita Mehta is also the author of "Raj".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #283061 in Books
• Published on: 1990-07-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

A painfully close-to-the-bone account of Westerners in India
I read this book when I was living in India and found its observations were bang on. It is full of tales of East meets West, East clashes with West, West tries to adopt and adapt to East etc, etc. Although Mehta does a pretty good job at giving a balanced view-point, herself having experienced a complete mixture of Eastern and Western cultures, she tends to fall on the side of the sub-continent, possible because Westerners there do tend to do daft things. Anyone travelling to India, or interested in culture clashes of any sort, should get this book. It should really be THE ubiquitous book about the travelling scene (in the way, say, The Beach has been). But then again, it is not as populist - and is far more intelligent - than that book was.