How to Win Friends and Avoid Sacred Cows: Weird Adventures in India - Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims when the Peace Corps was New

Gecko in your tea will kill you?

Beggars and Fashion Models?

Palm Reading Policemen?

But also a place where recycling is second nature.

A place where men break into singing, whenever they feel the urge.

This is India. This is what a 1960s Peace Corps volunteer remembers and had to write down.

AS A NINTH-GENERATION CALIFORNIAN who was raised in the suburbs of Anaheim (or as it came to be known, "Disneyland"), attended public high school and Cal State University--Long Beach, and was later to marry ...