Masala & Other Mixes

<p><strong><em>Masala & Other Mixes</em> is an often hilarious account of an epic 5500-mile journey through India and Nepal. This travelogue is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand India or Nepal in the 21st century covering</strong> as it does a wealth of subjects ranging from agriculture to architecture commerce to cuisine music to movies and politics to prison. Importantly the book <strong>examines the numerous connections between the region's cultures religions ethnic groups communities and societies.</strong> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The story also has many dramatic and sometimes perilous moments. <strong>The author witnesses off-duty soldiers beating up innocent civilians on a train to Delhi hears bullets whistling over the picturesque Dal Lake in Kashmir and is swept up in a full-scale military exercise in the Shalimar Gardens.</strong> Equally harrowing from a boat he sees up close the body of a child floating in the River Ganges. In Nepal a night time walk through the jungle is enlivened by the danger of charging rhinos and an encounter with an elephant. Even a goat threatens genital injury on one crowded Nepalese bus!</p><p><strong><em>Masala & Other Mixes</em> humorous tone its blend of subjective experience with objective research and its dramatizations of comic quirky disturbing and sometimes life-threatening events will attract fans of Bill Bryson. www.andyhanlon.co.uk </strong></p>