Ten talks in which Ray Gosling tells the story of his travels overland to the East.
5: Difficult - But Possible ' Ramaswany Radhakrish nan is my friend, somewhere south of Madras in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. (Population: 41 million; density nearly twice the All India Average; literacy 40 per cent). He lives with his Mum, and apart from the cooking pots, their most precious possessions are 150 letters from an Old Dutch friend called Henk, and now. two from me.
'We met in a monsoon at Pondicherry. He said " You buy me sandals, I show you many temples." I said " I am not a rich man, we must travel by bus." " Difficult," he said " but not impossible."
' That's India. North, South, East and West- 638 million people: being difficult but not impossible.'