The first half of the book was a masterpiece and I really
wished it was more compact. I was re-exploring every part of India through the
eyes of Lin. The love, simplicity and genuineness in people made me realize why
I miss that part of the world so much. In this book I met the happiest person I’ve
ever met in a book, “Prabhu” whose smile is clearly engraved in my mind. I agree with the writer when he says, “Indians
are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a
singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop
at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the
food inside the heart”
The story takes you to all the corners in slums to five star
hotels and rewards you the company of people from different walks of life. All in
all I loved the book but it was exhausting to read through some 2000 pages on
my e-reader. Also I felt that in the latter part the book lost its charm compared
to the first half.
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