From the late 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives could be found in the East. Recording her observations of these ??pilgrims?? interacting with their hosts, Gita Mehta skewers the entire spectrum of seekers: The Beatles, homeless […]
A new edition of the brilliantly irreverent classic about the clash between Eastern and Western cultures