Karma Cola

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Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East by Gita Mehta 208 pages... Perhaps too much of a "A witty documentary satire" for me, so I'll pass on real reviews:

Mehta embraces an enormous variety of life and death. Her style is light without being flip; her skepticism never descends to cynicism. [Karma Cola is] a miracle of rationalism and taste."-- Time.

Sometime in the 1960s, the West adopted India as its newest spiritual resort. The next anyone knew, the Beatles were squatting at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Expatriate hippies were turning on entire villages to the pleasures of group sex and I.V. drug use. And Indians who were accustomed to earning enlightenment the old-fashioned way were finding that the visitors wanted their Nirvana now -- and that plenty of native gurus were willing to deliver it...
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So this fit the relevant to India as you can see so much of the books humor in day to day experiences.\mwf