Re: [nukkad] Verdict is Yours : 61

["Ravi Menon" <>]

If I may make a reccomendation try and read Paul Theroux's Great
Railway Bazaar extremely well writtn, without appearing to be
patronising. I also read his Riding teh Iron rooster and learnt that
the word Ghar in Hindi may have come to us from Mongolia. Brought
through by the Mughal invaders. Of course the insinuation is purely
mine not Theroux. He mentions the Yurrt or circular house o fteh
mongols and says that it is called Ghur in teh local langage. Did not
Babur dand teh Mughals have Mongolian blood?
An interesting read both books are, though I relate better to teh Bazaar.
Another snippet from bazaar is that Cain and Abel are supposedly
buried in Rameswaram in South India so perhaps teh Garden of Eden was
indeed Sri Lanka!
Ravi




On 5/11/06, Ragini  wrote:
> Talking of travel, and languages, and the desire to learn culture and
> language while doing so,
> I am reading a new book called 'Eat, Pray and Love' memoirs by
> Elizabeth Gilbert.
> Ofcourse, I began reading it because her travel involved India, as
> well, but I have not enjoyed another book so much as this, in a long
> while.
> I do not know, yet, how it will end, but it is so much written from the heart.
> The expressions, the words the emotions are so day to day and simple,
> that I can see you all, Anna or Carola or anyone enjoying to the hilt.
>
> And the book also makes me to add Naples, Italy in my list of dream
> places. I have to go there, too, for more than one reasons but just to
> eat the greaaaaaaaatttttest of Pizza in the world, for sure.
>
> Did you know Naples gave the world, the world over devoured and
> relished thing called PIZZA?
>
> :)
>
>
> Ragini
>
> >
> > The only expectations I ever had and ever will have when travelling to and 
>through foreign countries was/is to gather new impressions, new experiences, 
>to broaden my mind, to get to know something about the foreign culture, its 
>people and their way of  living...as far as this is possible within the 
>limited period of 6 to 8 weeks.
> >  When I uttered that the quote made me even more curios about India it was 
>not due to the metioned elephants, tigers,cobras or what ever... it was the 
>following part of the quote that was of main interest for me:
> >  '' India ..... ......
> > .................the country of a hundred nations
> > and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two
> > million Gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of
> > human speech, mother of history, .................''
> >
> >  Carola
> >
> >
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