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“I was given this book as a gift from someone (an Aussie) who had read it and knowing of my deep desire to see India thought I would enjoy it. While it is certainly not what one would deem informative travel literature it does paint a picture, a really nasty, messy, disgusting one. So yes, India is dirty, not hard to imagine a country of that size with that many people and such bad infrastructure as being filthy. India is full of seemingly childish, irresponsible people who can't find their way anywhere and just want to take your money, way to be objective and tell a non fictional account!
I rarely if ever felt that the author even remotely enjoyed one minute of being in such a wondrous, thought provoking place. It was just endless complaining about the noise, the heat, the squalor, the people. Even when supposedly enjoying herself, she snuck in little barbs about the country. All the so called humor tended to be at the expense of Indians, a people with very little who were always willing to share and help her when they could. In the end this book is just another "selfish, bourgeois western agnostic, searches for God in the crazy whirligig of MAD, DIRTY India!"
This is not something I would recommend for those travelling to India, unless they just want to be scared off their trip.”
