| Title | : | Way out in India |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 |
| Publication | : | First published June 17, 2015 |
When Meryl Urson stepped off a plane for the first time into a steamy Mumbai midnight, little did she know that she’d begun a lengthy love affair with India?
It would stretch across innumerable encounters and far into her future.
This book is a record of her relationship with the world’s most fascinating country.
The reader is swept from the craziness of a revered guru’s southern headquarters to the turbulent peaks of the northern Himalayas, and through adventures as diverse as the discovery of a secret queen’s bath-house glittering behind a long-locked door, and the toppling of a Karl Marx statue in the middle of a Keralan Communist rally.
Way out in India is an idiosyncratic view of the diversity of life on the subcontinent through the enchanted eyes of an author in love with both place and people.
Way out in India Reviews
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This is a fantastic book that gives real insight into the many sides of India. Meryl transports you there with her anecdotes and entertaining stories of her travels. Also it was a great treat to 'look in the kitchen' of the Iyengar Yoga world, as Meryl has studied there. And with all honesty, quite shocking the way the Iyengar yoga school is run. Meryl came with well chosen angles to open ones eyes on the 'guru' perceptions, which really are perceptions. Her way of writing makes things transparant, without pointing a right or wrong finger. She also managed to capture the magic of India by sharing the many contridictions of the country with such well chosen prose.
It's a great read, I would reccommend it to all way out travellers, yoga lovers and basically any curious minds. If you haven't been to India yourself, Meryl's book will take you there. -
An excellent, well-written story which precisely captures the deep interest and love the author has for yoga, India and the Indian people. Yoga aside, the book is also an excellent account of the author's journey through India, covering experiences from light-hearted toilet mishaps (as seem to be commonplace for Western travelers) to an atypically negative experience in a major city. The story takes a somewhat darker turn when describing the leadership of the Iyengar yoga school; this is not unwelcome, though, as the description of some of the practices undertaken at the Iyengar institute in Pune cannot help but draw the reader in and quicken their interest in the topic. I highly recommend this book for anyone seeking to take up or teach Iyengar yoga, or take their first trip to India
