Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East [Audiobook] download free by Gita Mehta
- Listen audiobook: Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
- Author: Gita Mehta
- Release date: 1994/12/21
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780679754336
- Rating: 9.62 of 10
- Votes: 497
- Review by: Laurel Carmona
- Review rating: 7.92 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/28
- Duration: 2H22M23S in 256 kbps (38.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, MP3, MPEG-4 DST, WAV, MPEG4, TTA (compression ZIP, XZ, RAR, BZ)
- Total pages original book: 193
- Includes a PDF summary of 18 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M3S (3.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the East. An Indian writer who has also lived in England and the United States, Gita Mehta was ideally placed to observe the spectacle of European and American 'pilgrims' interacting with their hosts. When she finally recorded her razor sharp observations in Karma Cola, the book became an instant classic for describing, in merciless detail, what happens when the traditions of an ancient and long-lived society are turned into commodities and sold to those who don't understand them.In the dazzling prose that has become her trademark, Mehta skewers the entire spectrum of seekers: The Beatles, homeless students, Hollywood rich kids in detox, British guilt-trippers, and more. In doing so, she also reveals the devastating byproducts that the Westerners brought to the villages of rural India - high anxiety and drug addiction among them.Brilliantly irreverent, Karma Cola displays Gita Mehta's gift for weaving old and new, common and bizarre, history and current events into a seamless and colorful narrative that is at once witty, shocking, and poignant.'It is a sad, hilarious, rueful tale and she tells it with a rich fund of irony, satire, acerbic wit and insight.' Los Angeles Times'Evelyn Waugh would have rejoiced.' The New York Times Book Review
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Asian History, General Cookery, Hindu Books, Guidebooks, Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.38 USD
- Dimensions: 133x197x15.24mm
- Weight: 249g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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