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    India Unplugged. What Really Happens When You Are Traveling, Living and Working in India

    By Aurelia Zoss

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    About this ebook

    If you want to complement your India travel guide with a fun book to read, India unplugged is for you!

    Part travelogue, part memoir, and part advice for India travelers, this book is a delightful account of a twenty-something expat working and living in Bangalore.

    This is not another India travel guide about which forms to fill out, but rather a fun and refreshing collection of short stories packed with witty observations, quirky one-liners and hilarious cultural misunderstandings.
    Instead of going to expat parties, this young woman has mingled with the locals and thrown herself into the Indian life. She made Indian friends and worked with Indian colleagues and bosses. Her immersion into the Indian culture and her unique encounters make for unusual stories told in a funny yet personal way. We are taken along as she goes about her daily life and her travels.
    Unlike in most other expat books, Aurelia gives us a generous peak into her daily life in the Indian office and shares entertaining and sometimes embarrassing tales about her own cultural blunders.
    Expats will relate to many of her experiences and will find delight in Aurelia’s down-to-earth and humorous way of describing her life in India.

    The book consists of four parts:
    1.Traveling in India is about Aurelia’s first encounters with India and its people. You will read entertaining tales about what can go wrong while traveling in India.
    2.Living in India includes hilarious stories about Aurelia trying to figure out how things work in India – like dating Indian men.
    3.Working in India talks about minor and major culture clashes and awkward situations in the modern Indian office.
    4.Your trip to India is the most unusual India travel guide that you can find: it gives you the kind of information that you won’t get elsewhere.

    Entertaining, witty, and insightful, India unplugged is an irresistible treat for armchair tourists and an India travel guide for the adventurous backpacker alike.

    Why you should get this book:
    #1 India unplugged is packed with insights to help you navigate through new situations and cultural differences more than any India travel guide could do.
    #2 Funny stories will lighten up your day and make you laugh.
    #3 Bring the diversity and colors of buzzing Indian towns and their people into the comfort of your home.
    #4 The book will give you a taste of what to expect if you are planning to visit or move to India.

    India unplugged is an eclectic and highly personal collection of all the fascinating, surprising, and hilarious experiences Aurelia has had during her past four years in India.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAurelia Zoss
    Release dateMay 29, 2014
    ISBN9781311922090
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    India Unplugged. What Really Happens When You Are Traveling, Living and Working in India
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    Aurelia Zoss

    Aurelia first set foot on Indian soil in 2009 to travel and backpack across the country for two months. At the end of the trip, she decided that she needed to come back. A year later, she was again traveling and exploring the Indian subcontinent and finally heeded its call: After completing her Master’s degree, she got the opportunity to work and live in India and experience this vast country from an insider’s perspective. Since then, Aurelia has traveled all across India, meditated in the remote Himalayas and visited fishermen’s homes in the tropical South. She had dinner at a rickshaw driver’s home in Delhi, stayed with Indian families in seven different states and was part of a three-day traditional Indian wedding. She took local buses and trains, ate at the road side, took bucket showers, slept in five star hotels and in jungles. She rented apartments and did traditional Hindu housewarming rituals. She celebrated Hindu festival like Holi and Dussehra. She hired maids, visited doctors and managed Indian employees. Her stories about tailors, bus drivers, maids, shoe vendors, neighbors, rickshaw drivers, dentists, coconut vendors and office colleagues are so heart-warming that you will not want to put this book down but remain in Aurelia’s world.

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    • 3/5
      Some good insights and tips into living and working in India. A good addition to other books you may be reading before travelling to India for the first time.