razeen rafi

Cow is one of the first animal domesticated by human. In India cow plays an integral part of life. Shobha Narayan in this book provides facts, culture, customs, religion, and myths on cow. This book deals with he relation with milkwoman and their journey for buying a cow. Shobha first meets her milkwoman Sarala in an elevator with a cow on her new apartment. Shobha an American immigrant who returns to her home country of India makes friend with Sarala and thus begins their journey to buy a perfect cow as gift for Sarala.

This is my third book of Steve Coll after Bin Laden and Ghost war. This book was written in 1994 about his stay in south Asia between 1989 and 1992 while working as journalist in the region. Author makes his own investigation on mystery behind General Zia ul Haq death he suspects plane crash was a plan by CIA or his Rival Benazir Bhutto, Book also deals on Rajiv Gandhi assasination by LTTE,history of LTTE, He writes on India’s communal tensions, Soviet Afghan war and the CIA’s role in it,People’s Liberation Front headed by Rohan Wijeweera etc. This book is much informative for learing about South-east countries .

Book by Srinath Perur discuss regarding conducted tour experience. He in a group found traveling amazing. I came to know there is slum tourism in Mumbai when I read this book. This book is amazing dealing with some of conducted tours he participated in ten chapters which includes Temple tour in Tamil Nadu, Tour in desert of Rajasthan, Backwater tour in Kerala, An European Tour, Sex tourism in Uzbekistan, Musical Kabir Yatra with folk musicians across Rajasthan, tour of Assam and Meghalaya, walking tour of villages in Madhya Pradesh looking for local innovations and meeting people, Wari walk of Maharashtra (ancient walking pilgrimage to Pandarpur).