Though it's fashionable nowadays to draw a distinction between the "tourist" and the "traveler," perhaps the real distinction lies between those who leave their assumptions at home, and those who don't: Among those who don't, a tourist is just someone who complains, "Nothing here is the way it is at home," while a traveler is one who grumbles, "Everything here is the same as it is in Cairo -- or Cuzco or Kathmandu." It's all very much the same. And the first lesson we learn on the road, whether we like it or not, is how provisional and provincial are the things we imagine to be universal. -Pico Iyer The westerner is finding the dialectics of history less fascinating than the endless opportunities for narcissism provided by the Wisdom of the East. Except that the prime concern of the Wisdom of the East is the annihilation of narcissism. -Geeta Mehta
 
In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. -Mark Twain If one had spoken vileness in that place or quoted lofted poetry, the comment would have been the same ‘oum boum’ E.M. Forester
what gives value to travel is fear
-Albert Camus
Confusing the profound with the banal in attempts to levitate above reality
-Geeta Mehta
...escape to sun-drenched poverty...
-The Sunday Times, Britain
Travelling is a fool's paradise  Ralph Waldo Emerson
the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time
-paul fussel
What I’ve seen here, what I say, the white sun erases – Octavio Paz
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. - Joseph Conrad
It is quite possible that India is the real world and that the white man lives in a madhouse of abstractions.
-Carl Jung
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