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Me, Liz and the subcontinent I traveled in India and studied yoga, but there the Eat, Pray, Love similarities end Because I travel in India and write about it, many people ask me if I was influenced by...
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Dervla Murphy and her trusty steed, Roz Launching GO Books Full Tilt: From Ireland to India This book review of Full Tilt: From Ireland to India by Dervla Murphy marks the first in a new series on...
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Evening performance from Jaipur Literature Festival 2011, Jaipur ,India Indian writing is vibrant at home and abroad In honour of the Jaipur Literature Festival, which kicks off on January 24 in...
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Shantaram and Eat, Pray, Love are not the only books about India: Here are 10 of my favourites There are two types of people in the world: those who think Shantaram is a great book; and those who think...
View ArticleCelebrate Read an e-Book Week and buy Song of India
Read an e-book…buy Song of India: Tales of Travel and Transformation! Author Mariellen Ward March 4 – 10, 2012 is Read an e-Book Week. I am celebrating by discounting Song of India on Smashwords by 50%...
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The view from Shey Monastery, Nepal The Snow Leopard: A quest in the Himalayas The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen is an adventure travel masterpiece. It is about the author’s adventures hiking deep...
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Still from the film Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair GO Books: Chasing The Monsoon India’s monsoon expected to hit landfall in the southern state of Kerala on June 1 When I was first planning to...
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Still from The Thief of Baghdad Travel writing and the 1,001 Arabian Nights During the flowering of Arabic culture about 1,200 years ago, one King Shahryar’s wife betrayed him. In bitterness and...
View ArticleChasing Paul Theroux at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India
Travel Writer Paul Theroux at the Jaipur Literature Festival. When you interview a travel writer you need to have terrible things happen to you MY LONG TIME DREAM to attend the Jaipur Literature...
View ArticleShelley Seale: India Chooses You
Author Shelley Seale and children Shelley Seale reveals how she was changed by giving her heart to the children of India Guest post by Shelley Seale, author of Weight of Silence: The Invisible Children...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Indian rope trick
Sylvia Fraser in India, 2000 An interview with Sylvia Fraser Author of the transformative travel classic, The Rope in the Water In 2005, as I was getting ready to go to India for the first time, on my...
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Photo courtesy of Dave Bouskill, PictureThePlanet.com 10 Favourite spiritual books The mass popularity of Eat, Pray, Love seems to suggest that author Elizabeth Gilbert was the first seeker ever to...
View ArticleShelley Seale: India Chooses You
Author Shelley Seale and children Shelley Seale reveals how she was changed by giving her heart to the children of India Guest post by Shelley Seale, author of Weight of Silence: The Invisible Children...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Indian rope trick
Sylvia Fraser in India, 2000 An interview with Sylvia Fraser Author of the transformative travel classic, The Rope in the Water In 2005, as I was getting ready to go to India for the first time, on my...
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The similarities and differences between my travels in India and Eat, Pray, Love and why I appreciate Elizabeth Gilbert BECAUSE I TRAVEL in India and write about it, many people ask me if I was...
View ArticleGO Books: Going Full Tilt with Dervla Murphy
Dervla Murphy and her trusty steed, Roz Launching GO Books Full Tilt: From Ireland to India This book review of Full Tilt: From Ireland to India by Dervla Murphy marks the first in a new series on...
View ArticleDeepa Mehta directs Midnight’s Children
Deepa Mehta at the University of Toronto, photo by Katie Billo Deepa Mehta talks about making the film version of Midnight’s Children There was a moment during acclaimed Indo-Canadian director Deepa...
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