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  1. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Returning to a city that one has known and loved fills you with a delicious sense of warmth."
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  2. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    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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  3. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.
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  4. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
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  5. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    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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  6. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    What came next was a new experience for for both the fish and me
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  7. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    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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  8. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
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  9. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
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  10. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.
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  11. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    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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  12. Tahir Shah _ Sorcerer's Apprentice

    A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation
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