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<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLiterature and videos:<\/p>\n
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- Lonely Planet India 2013<\/a><\/li>\n
- India: A History<\/a> by John Kaye<\/li>\n
- Plain Tales from the Raj<\/a> by Charles Allen<\/li>\n
- Shantaram<\/a> by Gregory David Roberts<\/li>\n
- Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Mughal Empire<\/a> by Diana Preston<\/li>\n
- City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi<\/a> by William Dalrymple<\/li>\n
- White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in XVIII century India<\/a> by William Dalrymple<\/li>\n
- The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857<\/a> by William Dalrymple<\/li>\n
- Delhi<\/a> by Khushwant Singh<\/li>\n
- The Alchemy of Desire<\/a> by Tarun J. Tejpal<\/li>\n
- Tales from Firozsha Baag<\/a> by Rohinton Mistry<\/li>\n
- Such a Long Journey<\/a> by Rohinton Mistry<\/li>\n
- The Story of India<\/a> – BBC documentaries.<\/li>\n
- www.tripadvisor.com<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lonely planet website and its Thorn Tree Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Last 3 months, I spent absorbing the history and culture of India, the books created a new dimension in my life, bringing me back to times of Babur and Shah Jahan, Mughals and East India Company. I am thrilled to finally go and see it with my own eyes: appreciate, learn and inevitably fall in love with this country. \u00a0I also am excited to see our Oxonian friends in Delhi and Mumbai, attend Dalai Lama teaching in Bylakuppe and most importantly, discover India with a person I can’t live without – my Dimi.<\/p>\n
It is going to be an extraordinary trip to Incredible India!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The day has finally come to pack our suitcases and embark for yet another journey; this time, to India. I am excited to finally “live” the itinerary that took me 3 months to put together, \u00a0yet apprehensive to encounter dangers many of my friends warned me of – aggressive men, food poisoning, suffocating odors etc….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290],"tags":[181,188,193,185,196,191,176,187,182,173,184,183,186,194,178,189,190,192,195,180,197,177,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/192.168.2.119:1984\/svetanyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- India: A History<\/a> by John Kaye<\/li>\n