Books

Lonely planet guide (there are so many guide books... this is just one of them.  Unsure which is best)
From Here to Nirvana, guidebook of Ashrams in India
Wanderlust and Lipstick, for Women Traveling in India


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Helpful Websites for Traveling to India

The Lonely Planet, India site
IndiaMike.com, a site for India travel discussions, info, etc.
wanderlust and lipstick (for women traveling)
makemytrip.com, a site for booking train, bus, and air travel within India
iguide, an interactive travel guide, really well organized and easy to navigate

Vaccines: CDC website

An India visa can be obtained through these folks: Travisa

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You Choose

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
-Gandhi


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“It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.”
-Emily Dickinson











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Furrywhirled..........

"Consciousness is the slash in between those oppositions"
-Sarah





"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
-Gandhi

















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“I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.”
-Salman Rushdie






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Her own grief grieved her.
-Arundhadi Roy, from The God of Small Things, p. 7













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The beach was barren and dull to play on alone; the only neighbors who stayed on past Labor Day, a young married couple, had no children, and Eliot no longer found it interesting to gather broken mussel shells in his bucket, or to stroke the seaweed, strewn like strips of emerald lasagna on the sand.
-Lahiri, 114 (image)







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Has she sent you packing yet?"
"It is very well, madame."
"Some of the boys run screaming. But I think she likes you. You're the first boarder she's ever referred to as a gentleman."
"Not at all, madame."
She looked at me, noticing my bare feet (I still feel strange wearing shoes indoors, and always removed them before entering my room). Are you new to Boston?"
"New to America, madame."
"From?" She raised her eyebrows.
"I am from Calcutta, India"
"Is that right? We had a Brazilian fellow, about a year ago. You'll find Cambridge a very international city."
I nodded, and began to wonder how long our conversation would last.
-Lahiri, 185












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“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
-Salman Rushdie
















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“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
-Salman Rushdie

















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"How did you make it?"
"I made it up."
"What did you do?"
"I just put some things into the pot and added the malt vinegar at the end."
"How much vinegar?"
She shrugged, ripping off some bread and plunging it into her bowl.
"What do you mean you don't know? You should write it down. What if you need to make it again, for a party or something?"
"I'll remember," she said. She covered the bread basket with a dishtowel that had, he suddenly noticed, the Ten Commandments printed on it. She flashed him a smile, giving his knee a little squeeze under the table. "Face it. This house is blessed."
-Lahiri, 144








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"Culture is like language, ever developing. there is no right and wrong, no purity from which there is decline. Usage sanctions everything."
-Kumar, 125






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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
-Salman Rushdie


















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"Saying nothing....sometimes says the most."
-Emily Dickinson