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Synopsis
Originally published in 1990 and now reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of Indian independence, an account of the consumerist West which struggles to gobble up Hinduism and is choking itself in the process. From the author of RAJ.
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"A witty documentary satire.... Mehta embraces an enormous variety of life and death. Her style is light without being flip; her skepticism never descends to cynicism. [Karma Cola is] a miracle of rationalism and taste." -- Time Sometime in the 1960s, the West adopted India as its newest spiritual resort. The next anyone knew, the Beatles were squatting at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Expatriate hippies were turning on entire villages to the pleasures of group sex and I.V. drug use. And Indians who were accustomed to earning enlightenment the old-fashioned way were finding that the visitors wanted their Nirvana now -- and that plenty of native gurus were willing to deliver it. No one has observed the West's invasion of India more astutely than Gita Mehta. In Karma Cola the acclaimed novelist trains an unblinking journalistic eye on jaded sadhus and beatific acid burnouts, the Bhagwan and Allen Ginsberg, guilt-tripping English girls and a guru who teaches gullible tourists how to view their previous incarnations. Brilliantly irreverent, hilarious, sobering, and wise, Mehta's book is the definitive epitaph for the era of spiritual tourism and all its casualties -- both Eastern and Western. "Evelyn Waugh would have rejoiced." -- The New York Times Book Review
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SALES POINTS: * Over 10, 000 of this edition sold. * New issue to coincide with publication of Mehta's new work Snakes and ladders. * Her backlist will be part of a huge Mehta campaign for the new book. * Reissued for the 50th annniversary of Indian Independence. * To be part of the Indian Summer Promotion.
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Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
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Condition: Good. 1980. hardcover. Good copy showing light age and wear. Scoring to rfep and title page. Slight damage to edges of pp. 23, 49-50. Remains a nice reading copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KMK0025723
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Karma Cola
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Jonathan Cape, 1980
ISBN 10: 0224017748
ISBN 13: 9780224017749
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Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
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Condition: Good. 1980. hardcover. Good copy showing light age and wear. Scoring to rfep and title page. Slight damage to edges of pp. 23, 49-50. Remains a nice reading copy. . . . . Seller Inventory # KMK0025723
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Karma Cola: Marketing The Mystic East
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ISBN 10: 0224017748
ISBN 13: 9780224017749
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publication of 201 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 6qrus
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