Hindustan Times
Do all travel accounts have a fictional element to them? I started wondering about it after reading this piece, courtesy: Madhu. It raises an interesting point, one that’s not just true of travel books, but also of some travel writing that we see in magazines and newspapers. I realised this soon after the Rickshaw Run that I went on two years ago. One of the participants wrote a piece for a UK publication that conflated the events of the entire trip into a single day - making it sounds like one helluva 24 hours. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Neha Dara on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Filed under Travel · Tagged journey, magazines, Maoist strike, newspaper, Rickshaw Run, Travel, travel accounts, UK publication
