Not everyone wants to study again and many of us consider travel a non-homework activity. I personally do believe in doing some reading before a trip. There are two kinds of books for travel: travel fiction and guidebooks. The former is just as informative in the way it opens your eyes to subtleties. An example might be what a headdress might mean? Travel fiction is written by women often covers myths or religious beliefs which are hard for us to understand. Here is our movie and reading list for India:
Colors of India and the Pushkar Fair
Films and books you may find of interest
Water is set in the 1930s and is about a widow’s ashram — directed by Deepa Mehta
Gandhi the epic story of Gandhi’s life by David Attenborough
Earth the second in Deepa Mehta’s trilogy (Fire, Earth, Water) covering the time of partition when Punjab was ripped apart to form Pakistan
The Jewel in the Crown Masterpiece Theater’s epic TV series adapted from The Raj Quartet
Eat Pray Love Scenes of Italy, India, and Bali: starring Julia Roberts
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Delightful British comedy-drama with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith
A Passage to India based on the E.M. Forester novel, set in colonial India in the 1920s
Slumdog Millionaire winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture
Monsoon Wedding a wonderful romp as an upper-middle-class family prepares for a wedding.—direct by Mira Nair
BOOKS
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller the lives of women in India
The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Life, death and Hope set in Mumbai
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (and the related movies by Merchant and Ivory).
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
