RE: [nukkad] Verdict is Yours : 61

["Sathiaseelan, Shyamala" <>]

The struggle i made inside paranthsis, is because of the authors
terminology. If you are going to visit india, the first and foremost
thing to keep in mind is not to have lot of expectation.
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Anantha,

That is true of any country!

I travel quite a bit. For the past few months I've been travelling to
Derby, UK regularly. The first time I was going to Derby, I asked my
friend if I would find any Indian shops there... And his response was
"Derby is very English, there is no chance you find anything Indian
there". Guess what I discovered? As usual most taxi drivers are Asians,
there is a street where every second shop sells salwars and ghagra
cholis, there is a Temple and Gurudwara and many Indian Restaurants
(three right beside the hotel I stayed). 

Last week I was in Egypt, I was told not to expect to get Veggie food
that easily. Surprise, Surprise... I never had one bit of a problem
finding veggie food... I had lovely veggie Egyptian food all the time
:), even when we ordered food on a train, we got veggie food!

If the author says she struggled, then I am not sure if I would like to
read the book! Yes, it is not easy to travel in India, if it is a
foreigner travelling alone, but I wouldn't call that a struggle.

My German friend travelled to Delhi and Bombay alone in September 2004
her experiences were quite different from when she travelled with me to
South India in Jan 2005! She got cheated by taxi drivers, and travel
agents, missed her train in Delhi heading to Jaipur, etc, but also had
lovely food on the train which the locals offered to her seeing that she
had not brought food with her :) She came back and told how she wasn't
happy about getting cheated, but also mentioned how much fun she had!
Struggle was not a word that she used. A year and a half later we still
talk and laugh about all her experiences....

If a book is going to make me stop travelling then I wouldn't want to
read that book at all :)

Have a nice day
-Shyami


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