Interesting title and even more interesting cover page!! It's supposed to be a travel book (or rather I found it in the travel section in landmark!!) but it just recounts Sarah's experiences of India, a country that she hated and vowed never to return too. But return she does and slowly starts to love it for it's all its extremities, its diversity and much more. Leaving behind her own budding career, she spends her sabbatical traveling around the country: attending a Vipassana meditation course, seeking out a Sikh Ayurvedic "miracle healer", bathing in the Ganges during Kumbh Mela, studying Buddhism in Dharamsala, dabbling in Judaism with Israeli tourists, experiencing horror at Parsi practices of vultures feeding on the dead, visiting Sai Baba and Mata Amritananda, attending a Christian festival in Velankani and singing with Sufis. Most of which i have never done inspite of living here for 23 long years!!
Its more like an atheistic's spiritual journey! A song that fits the essence of the book very well is Rabbi's "Bulla Ki Jaana Mai Kaun"
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