Book description
After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald
decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a
passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she
would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return.
But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner,
ABC's South Asia correspondent, is posted to New Delhi, the most
polluted city on earth. Having given up a blossoming radio career in
Sydney to follow her new boyfriend to India, it seems like the
ultimate sacrifice and it almost kills Sarah - literally. After being
cursed by a sadhu smeared in human ashes, she nearly dies from double
pheumonia. 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 goddess of healing
hugs and a couple of Bollywood stars - among many, many others - Sarah
discovers a hell of a lot more.
Sarah Macdonald is a journalist and radio broadcaster who lives in
Sydney with her husband, ABC journalist Jonathan Harley, and their baby
daughter Georgina. HOLY COW! is her first book.
