An unusual attachment, 16 Jul 2008
While this is primarily a travel book - it reads more like a memoir of an unusual relationship. I found myself wondering - more than once - what Sarah Lloyd thought she was doing - she lived with a poor sikh family - then later moved with her lover to a religious community - with a man who she admits she had no intention of marrying, or having children with. This question is one she asks herself in this honest account of her two year relationship with Jungli - but I didn't feel she ever answered it. I couldn't help but feel - that she a white English woman was simply satisfying her own wants - and when she had finished "expierencing" she left India and Jungli. It is obvious that she often felt that the hut she shared with Jungli was home, that she had all she needed there, and yet there always seemed that there was an ending they were just moving towards. I wondered what he and his family thought of her after she had left them. A truly fascinating account of an unusual relationship, but also and most intrestingly a wonderful account of Indian village life, and the life of a religious community.