Flowers And Elephants : A Voyage Through India

"This is a charming book that carries the rare delicateness of softly touching the strings of the heart. On the surface, it's young woman's journey to India, her experiences and her onward journey to Ceylon before she returns home to England. But flowers and elephants is nothing of what it seems and yet so much more.

As renowned author E.M. Forster writes in his poetic foreword, 'this book is about the colours of a sea voyage; it paints the vivid touches of oriental life; it offers clever snatches of talk. More so, it's about reality's contesting perfections and imperfections. Life is at one moment so exquisite and near, at the next so worthless and remote. Despondency and contentment are both so transient. Happiness is more probable in solitude.

An outward journey beautifully told, this book is just that much about an inner journey that we all have at some point taken or will take in a quest to find answers to questions we often ask ourselves."