PDF Î Holy Cow An Indian Adventure ¼ Sarah Macdonald
N earth New Delhi For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love and it almost kills her literally Just settled she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia an experience that compels her to face some serious uestions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void “I must find peace in the only place possible in India” she concludes “Within” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meani I read the book while holidaying in Northern NSW The reason I read this book was because it was on the bookshelf in the holiday home we had for the week Also because it was supposed to talk about India from a Westerners perspective Let me put it out there this book is not a travelogue It is a miserable portrayal of a difficult to understand country by a selfish Australian woman A lot of what she passes off in the book is exaggeration In other words fiction Do NOT use this book as a decision making tool for an Indian holiday Describing the book in just one word Patronising PS You could be at the wrong place at the wrong time ANYWHERE in the world I was mugged at a well lit train station in Westren Sydney
Sarah Macdonald ¼ Holy Cow An Indian Adventure KINDLE
Holy Cow An Indian AdventureIn her twenties journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat pollution and poverty So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India and for love she screamed “Never” and gave the country and him the fingerBut eleven years later the prophecy comes true When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India she uits her dream job to move to the most polluted city o I have to admit that I decided to read this book because it has a great cover I should have peeked a bit inside though because the cliched chapter titles would have kept me away Insane in the Membrane Birds of a Feather Become Extinct Together etcBasically this is the memoir of a selfish Australian woman's year in India She sees India as a filthy place full of disgusting people with intolerable cultural habits And she spends her free time while her husband is working in other cities or countries on news stories traveling around India in search of religion She seems to have a disdain for religion at the same time she seeks out religious celebrities and empty religious experiencesPerhaps I have negative feelings about the author's view of India because when I was in India all I felt was compassion and sadness for the poor around me What type of person sees poverty and is disgusted by it? I guess it's this type of selfishness that also keeps her from giving a face and a personality to her husband in her writingsEdit I much prefer the attitude of the writer in this article concerning India