Re: [nukkad] Verdict is Yours : 61

["Anantha Narayanan" <>]

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The book is almost same as the description you have given. Instead it also
includes her experiences where she was living in India. Almost same.

On 5/10/06, Sathiaseelan, Shyamala  wrote:
>
>
> 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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Anantha Narayanan.T.L
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tell
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