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Myth, travelogue and holy writ, the Ramayana – the Journey of Rama – is India’s best-loved book, an inspiration to schoolchildren, monks and movie-makers. It's one of the world’s great epic tales, yet is largely unread in the Western world. The story of a man searching savage jungles for his kidnapped wife, the Ramayana combines Heart of Darkness with the Odyssey. And bizarrely, this violent and erotic account of a war between light and dark is at the heart of the fiercest controversy in contemporary Indian politics – one that has claimed over 10,000 lives. When Martin Buckley first encountered the Ramayana twenty-five years ago, it became a guide to the complexities of Indian life. Here, he fulfils a dream – to retrace the route of Rama from his birthplace in north India to the climax of his confrontation with Evil in Sri Lanka. In doing so, Buckley finds that the epic is as much a key to understanding India today as it was 3,000 years ago. Some historians have recast the fight between the hero and a race of dark-skinned demons as a colonial war, waged by Aryan invaders against indigenous Indians. Incredibly, it is echoed today in the brutal civil war being fought in the jungles of Sri Lanka. At the same time, the God-King Rama inspires spiritual devotions of a kind almost unimaginable in the West. An Indian Odyssey is the story of an adventurous and sometimes perilous passage through India by motorbike, microlight, bus and train. In the course of his own odyssey – physical and spiritual – Buckley witnesses death on the chaotic Great Trunk Road and passes through a war zone in Sri Lanka where bicycle bombs are the weapon of choice. A cast of mystics and Marxists, idealists and cynics – Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist – lays out the rich fabric of contemporary India and Sri Lanka, illuminated by the remarkable story of their past – and the quest of a man to rescue the woman he loves. (2004-09-27)

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'An absorbing holiday read' -- Yoga and Health Magazine

'Travel writing with a difference as Buckley traces the route of the Ramayana, the great Indian epic, from north-west India to Sri Lanka, encountering "Marxists and Mystics" along the way. A brilliant blend of travelogue, history and romance.' -- Scotland on Sunday

'A meditation on the mysteries of life masquerading as a rollicking road-trip... Woven in to his own epic adventures is Buckley's raunchy and believable abridgement of the epic Ramayana, worthy of Vikram Seth' -- Independent

'A rich account of a country bursting with piety and mysticism'
-- Irish Times

'[A] barnstorming account of a love affair with India that extends over more than a quarter of a century... He is incredibly well-informed... An engaging and powerful book'
-- Daily Telegraph
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Travelling by land, sea and small plane from north-east India to Sri Lanka and back, Martin Buckley recreates one of the great journeys in world literature - the Ramayana. (2004-09-27)

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  • PublisherHutchinson
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0091925762
  • ISBN 13 9780091925765
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages368
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