false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176410325m/623125.jpg 623125 1 Pramila Jayapala rejected her indigenous Indian culture when she was a young child, having been taught and raised in Western schools and ideology. For years, Jayapala held this uncomplicated opinion: "India repressed and backward, America creative and advanced." But after working a soulless job in investment banking and marketing, she finally came to realize that "there was a woman within me, waiting to emerge, a persona that included a complexity of new images of homeland, identity, life values, and work."<p> Eventually she left Seattle, Wash., where she had worked, to embark on a two-year pilgrimage through India. Japayala takes us on the underground tour--letting us see this complex and spiritually fascinating country through Western eyes but with a native guide. She openly questions the feminine and class restraints of India, yet somehow she never becomes self-righteous or didactic. Through this brave, unflinching voice we find a mentor for self-discovery as well as a model for how to know and question our own homelands. At its core this is a global manifesto in which Jayapala recognizes that spiritual growth is the only way to bring about social and political change. But at its heart this is a dynamic spiritual memoir as Jayapala continually returns to her personal journey, including the gripping crescendo--a miraculous story of her son's premature birth in Bombay. <I>--Gail Hudson</I> 609489 9 4 2001 Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland (Adventura Series) total:6|5:1|4:3|3:1|2:1| 6 22 11 1 5 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Aug 30 22:56:32 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 22:56:39 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 11:44:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 11:44:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 27 05:31:16 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 05:31:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 09 06:59:46 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 06:59:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Apr 13 13:22:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 22 09:44:10 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 13 13:22:39 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 21 18:36:40 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 18:36:40 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Fri Aug 24 10:45:35 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 10:45:35 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Aug 19 21:31:15 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 21:31:22 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sat Aug 04 18:12:16 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 18:12:20 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Fri Jun 01 14:39:23 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 14:39:26 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Wed Apr 25 00:08:11 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 00:08:31 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=623125