"You are very shanti, I am very shanti, India is very shanti, the hash is very shanti.""Shanti is hindi for peace. I find india anything but shanti--in fact I find it loud, intrusive, brash, impatient and confronting."(165)
I chose this passage because it shows how after spending a long period of time in India, Sarah still is some what closed minded to the ideas around being in India. There are many peaceful places to go and things to experience. She is stubborn and only sees India for the bad things. She meets people who are nice to her, people that she doesn't even know. They say that they have powerful strong feelings towards her. This is weird to me because Sarah doesn't seem very passionate about anything, yet this stranger seems very passionate about her. Sarah says that India makes her feel powerless. All these thoughts are very shocking to me when you consider the emotions and feelings of everyone else around her.
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