Head Waggling in Delhi

<p>For centuries India's mystical allure has drawn in visitors in search of enlightenment riches romance and adventure. In the mid-1990s as a precocious twenty-three-year-old author Eytan Uliel and his girlfriend set off on a journey of discovery leaving behind the comforts of Sydney to backpack in India for four months.<br /><br />Limited to a budget of twelve dollars a day they lived ate and traveled like locals. The journey around the sub-continent took them north to south east to west: from the holy city of Varanasi to the modern-day playground of Mumbai; from the desert fortresses of Rajasthan to the bucolic backwaters of Kerala. Along the way they sipped tea in Darjeeling experienced a train ride from hell to Madras got bit parts in a Bollywood film ogled at the incomparable Taj Mahal hung with hippies in Goa and met a whole lifetimes' worth of fascinating entertaining and memorable characters.<br /><br />Head Waggling in Delhi offers timeless insight into life on the road in India-the good the bad and the downright bizarre-filled with wry observation affection and humor.</p>