Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure

£7.99

After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided she hates this country of chaos and contradiction with a passion.
And when a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists that she will one day return - and for love - she gives India, and him, the finger.

But eleven years later, his prophecy comes true. When the love of her life, ABC's South Asia correspondent, is posted to New Delhi, she leaves her dream job as a radio DJ in Sydney to follow her fiance' to the most polluted city on earth.
It seems like the ultimate sacrifice and it almost kills her - literally. One smoggy night, a sadhu smeared in human ashes curses her and she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia. She survives, but not before she has faced some serious questions about her own mortality and inner void, not to mention unsightly hair loss.

It's enough to send a rapidly balding atheist on a wild rollercoaster ride through India's many religions in search of the meaning of life and death. From the 'brain enema' of a meditation retreat in Dharamsala to the biggest Hindu festival on earth on the steps of the Ganges in Varanasi, and with the help of the Dalai Lama, a real-life goddess and a couple of Bollywood stars - among many, many others - Sarah Macdonald discovers a hell of a lot more...