Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure is a story of a Australian journalist, Sarah Macdonald who joins her love, Jonathan Harley a correspondent for Australia Broadcasting Company (ABC) and re-visit India. Sarah is famous as a political correspondent at the Australia Broadcasting Radio News, Triple J, hosting several television production at ABC. She is currently working as a Senior Editor at Debrief Daily, In her early twenties, Sarah backpacked her way around India. It give her a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty of India. When at the airport, a beggar read her palm and told her that she would return to India for love in the future which she of course did not believe him. It is then and there she decided that she hated India. She vowed to never return saying “Goodbye and good riddance India, I hate you and I’m never ever, ever coming back.” (pp3) However, the prophecy came true almost eleven years later. Sarah decided to quit her job and relocate to New Delhi, India, the most polluted city on earth when Jonathan’s journalism work requires him there. This seems to be the ultimate sacrifice for love for her to give up her blossoming radio career in Sydney and it almost kill her. In the beginning, Sarah hated everything …show more content…
She visited Allahabad for the Maha Kumbh Mela gathering on the banks of the Ganges, Tamil Nadu’s Virgin Mary Basilica at Velangani, the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sai Baba Ashram near Bangalore, Mata Amritanandamayi’s Ashram in Kerala, Jain temple in Delhi and the meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, the tibetan Buddhist center. She also explores smaller, more marginal traditions, including Vipassana Buddhist meditation where one are to keep silence for all of the ten days, the Parsis of Malabar Hill and the now-fading Bene Israel Jewish community. It help her gain an understanding about various religions in India and how they co-exist