Daily Life in Indian Culture: An Insightful Guide to Customs & Traditions of India - Couverture souple

Thota, Ramesh

 
9781523406715: Daily Life in Indian Culture: An Insightful Guide to Customs & Traditions of India

Synopsis

ENJOY YOUR TRAVEL TO INDIA

This book is written from the perspective of a foreigner traveler. The various aspects of Indian Culture are explained in a rational & experiential way. These ideas are communicated through a story where a foreigner recounts his visit to India. This story makes you feel, relate, understand, experience the way Indians live.

The Story - "John returns to America after six months of stay in India, as a positively transformed person. His relationship with his live-in girl friend changes for better. He recounts all that he experienced during his stay in India and the insights he got."

This book helps you understand the psyche of Indians and provides explanation for all that behavior that is unique to Indians such as:

  • The close family ties
  • The concept of arranged marriage
  • The various customs; and the rituals performed at different life events, including at the time of death
  • Existence of innumerable Gods and ever growing list of them
  • Praying to a plant such as 'Tulasi' & Treating animals as Gods e,g Cows
  • Together or Separate? Competing to pay the food bills
  • Hygiene and cleanliness aspects. Leaving footwear outside the temples & homes
  • The lack of regard for the Queue system
  • The Caste system & Reservations
  • The scriptures & the Hindu philosophical concept of Karma etc..

  • Take the tour and ENJOY!

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    Présentation de l'éditeur

    ----------------------------------------------- ENJOY India! ------------------------------------------------- ------------------Understand Indian way-of-life and its Culture in a rational way--------------- This book illustrates and explains, in a rational way, various aspects of Indian Culture in day-to-day life. This book gives you a vicarious experience of India. It also tries to provide a glimpse of Indian way of life with reference to the philosophy and happiness. If you are traveling to India, this book will help you a lot. For all those people who lost touch with India, this book will bring back the good memories. This will complement the other India Travel books. It is written in a story format to take you through the real-life situations of India. Everything that you need to know to understand the daily life in India is presented in this book. Every phenomenon is explained and the rational reasons are explored. This book evolved over the success of the earlier book explaining workplace behavior of Indians, titled "Teamwork & Indian Culture - A Practical Guide for Working with Indians". To present the ideas in the story format, it traces the journey of John - hero of the earlier book - to unravel his dilemmas about marriage and life, by relating his experiences in India to his life. "John returns to America, after six months of stay in India, as a positively transformed person. His relationship with his live-in girl friend changes for better. All that he experienced during his stay in India has contributed to this transformation." This book vividly presents the situations and scenarios that John has faced. It provides you a glimpse into the psyche of Indians and provides explanation for all that behavior that is unique to Indians. For example: * The existence of innumerable Gods * Praying to a plant -Tulasi- every day. Praying to animals such as cow. * The village life in India * The Caste system & Reservations * The family life * The arranged marriage * The rituals on the event of a death * The scriptures * The Hindu philosophical concept of Karma * Leaving footwear outside the house * The hygiene and cleanliness aspects etc.... Take the tour and ENJOY! For Discounts, please visit Thodu.org/Thora .

    Présentation de l'éditeur

    ENJOY YOUR TRAVEL TO INDIA

    This book is written from the perspective of a foreigner traveler. The various aspects of Indian Culture are explained in a rational & experiential way. These ideas are communicated through a story where a foreigner recounts his visit to India. This story makes you feel, relate, understand, experience the way Indians live.

    The Story - "John returns to America after six months of stay in India, as a positively transformed person. His relationship with his live-in girl friend changes for better. He recounts all that he experienced during his stay in India and the insights he got."

    This book helps you understand the psyche of Indians and provides explanation for all that behavior that is unique to Indians such as:

  • The close family ties
  • The concept of arranged marriage
  • The various customs; and the rituals performed at different life events, including at the time of death
  • Existence of innumerable Gods and ever growing list of them
  • Praying to a plant such as 'Tulasi' & Treating animals as Gods e,g Cows
  • Together or Separate? Competing to pay the food bills
  • Hygiene and cleanliness aspects. Leaving footwear outside the temples & homes
  • The lack of regard for the Queue system
  • The Caste system & Reservations
  • The scriptures & the Hindu philosophical concept of Karma etc..

  • Take the tour and ENJOY!

    Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.