Jitters about India My husband and I are not really seasoned travelers and I am pretty sure that this fact makes us an oddity on a website like this. I was the one who wanted to travel to India. Like many big trips, there is something that a person can't quite describe that pulls them to start the journey, and this was the case with me. In South Africa we have an annual Cape Town book fair which supports writers from all over the world, who are invited to come to Cape Town to meet their readers. One particular year, the writer was Kiran Desai, an author, originally from India, who wrote so beautifully about the Himalayas. I had the opportunity to attend one of her book readings and was immediately spellbound. It is a funny
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