Book Fair ‘08 “seminar” at Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata :
Seminar dt. 03-03-08
Some speakers were telling that ( some of the ) city dwellers of Kolkata have the mentality that of the “villagers” ….?
They could never acquire the ‘attitude’ to be a member of a great cosmopolitan city … 300 yrs of Kolkata ….?
They may not [...]

Shabanu lives with her mother, father, older sister, grandfather, aunt, and young cousins in a compound of mud huts near the border between Pakistan and India. They own a herd of fine camels, and as long as there is water in the nearby pond (called a “toba”), they live a proud and free existence in [...]

Gipsies constitute a race of people and they are all around the world, I do not think it is fair at all that Romanians should be classified as gipsies, I mean, it is ridiculous. Gipsies are in India, Spain, Greece, everywhere, why does it have to be a Romania thing? God, this ignorance thing, people [...]

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Reviewed by Katie from Flagstaff, Arizona.