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Description:To live in India you must have an enormous heart, a heart of boundless dimensions. Or no heart at all. It's the in-betweens who have the tough time--such as Pamela Mardellis, a sensitive and pretty woman who had never learned her limitations. She had come to India when her husband, Richard, had taken a job with UNESCO in Delhi. Soon after they arrived, the Mardellises set off to see Siva's temple, pushing their way through the bazaar, full of fly-encrusted filth and beggars and old women squatting in rows holding out their bowls. Then, her feet slipping in the marigold mud of the temple path, Pamela saw the lepers. And fled back to the hotel.But it was the cats that were the last straw for Pamela--all thirty-eight of them. Obviously, she couldn't take India any longer, so Richard put her on a plane for England.Unlike his wife, Richard could take India. Sometimes it infuriated him, even repelled him, but it fascinated him, it held him. He had friends there, among them Shankar, who'd once been one of India's bright young men and had won fild festival awards for his documentaries; Shankar's pampered younger brother, Krishan; the questionable Giles Moate; and Fred Siegel, a newcomer, whose long-legged wife Helen attracted Richard's immediate attention.East and West meet here uneasily; the Westerners, whether well-intentioned or self-serving, pound and push futilely, in their own feverish tempo, against the inflexible "non-resistance" of a people moving to a different rhythm within a totally different time span. In a hair-raising climax, and out-of-control Indian youth at the wheel of a fast Western car precipitates gruesome disaster . . . a terrifying summation of the prospects for the overnight modernizing of an ancient, intricate, self-contained and all but impenetrable culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cats of Benares. To get started finding The Cats of Benares, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 209

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Publisher: Harper & Row

Release: 1967

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Description: To live in India you must have an enormous heart, a heart of boundless dimensions. Or no heart at all. It's the in-betweens who have the tough time--such as Pamela Mardellis, a sensitive and pretty woman who had never learned her limitations. She had come to India when her husband, Richard, had taken a job with UNESCO in Delhi. Soon after they arrived, the Mardellises set off to see Siva's temple, pushing their way through the bazaar, full of fly-encrusted filth and beggars and old women squatting in rows holding out their bowls. Then, her feet slipping in the marigold mud of the temple path, Pamela saw the lepers. And fled back to the hotel.But it was the cats that were the last straw for Pamela--all thirty-eight of them. Obviously, she couldn't take India any longer, so Richard put her on a plane for England.Unlike his wife, Richard could take India. Sometimes it infuriated him, even repelled him, but it fascinated him, it held him. He had friends there, among them Shankar, who'd once been one of India's bright young men and had won fild festival awards for his documentaries; Shankar's pampered younger brother, Krishan; the questionable Giles Moate; and Fred Siegel, a newcomer, whose long-legged wife Helen attracted Richard's immediate attention.East and West meet here uneasily; the Westerners, whether well-intentioned or self-serving, pound and push futilely, in their own feverish tempo, against the inflexible "non-resistance" of a people moving to a different rhythm within a totally different time span. In a hair-raising climax, and out-of-control Indian youth at the wheel of a fast Western car precipitates gruesome disaster . . . a terrifying summation of the prospects for the overnight modernizing of an ancient, intricate, self-contained and all but impenetrable culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cats of Benares. To get started finding The Cats of Benares, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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