An Indian attachment.

9781906011031

An Indian attachment.

Lloyd, Sarah.

Eland Publishing

2008

244 pages

$36.95

Paperback

DS407

This is by no means a typical travelers' narrative. Lloyd, a practicing landscape architect and landscape photographer, was rather young and innocent when she embarked upon her two year sojourn in rural India. She fell in love with a Sikh whose characteristics included a seemingly gentle nature and a propensity for opium. They lived in a remote mud-built Punjabi village, then moved on to become part of a community surrounding one of the most dubious of holy men. Surviving on pennies a day, Lloyd soon came to the realization that sharing the plight of impoverished villagers was in part an act of love and also an act of appropriation; however, she saw life in India as it really is, far from the relative luxury experienced by tourists. Distributed by Dufour.

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