Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

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The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

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Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

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Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

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My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.

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The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

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Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

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A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

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There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

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