Yoga School Dropout - Fresh, Funny, Western-Eye-Perspective of India
Yoga School Dropout has been read, fondly looked at after the back cover closed on the last page, and relegated to a snug position in the book cupboard. I am now ready to wax eloquent on its contents.
This book has been categorized as a travelogue though the author, Lucy Edge, employs interesting fiction elements to maintain the momentum of the book. The characterizations are endearing and Lucy has generously ripped apart the quaint usage of the present continuous tense in Indian English. She clearly captures her emotional response to India as it swings from very positive to embarrassingly negative.
The Yoga School Dropout is a book about Lucy's trip to India in search of spiritual fulfillment, a well-toned Yoga body, and some fun vacation on the side. She visits several hallowed cities and towns in India that house famous Yoga/Spiritual retreats and tries to find a place that offers her a solution to her problems. She travels across the subcontinent: Rishikesh, Kerala, Pondicherry, Chennai, Pune, Delhi and Mysore. Finally, she figures out that she is the solution that she is seeking. The narrative provides an interesting perspective on how many Yoga and spiritual retreats are run and how Westerners are treated in these places as well as at large in India.
This is a very interesting read and I recommend it for those who have atleast a marginal interest in Yoga or a curiosity about happenings in general.
sounds interesting.
echo, does this book elaborates
on yoga practices., etc stuff
like that?
Posted by
Phoenix |
3:11 AM, May 20, 2005