Anthony Bourdain - May 23, Iyengar Sunday Fun & Chair Class

I’ve always loved his writing, passionate, human. Nice to hear his voice again, from World Travel. This fragment almost made me want to go back to India, almost…

RAJASTHAN

"Rajasthan [is] one of India's harshest and most desolate regions, located in the northwestern tip of the continent. For centuries, [it was] home to numerous independent feudal kingdoms, and a fierce warrior class who resisted the influence and domination of invaders and neighbors alike. It's one of the most magnificent areas of India, a storybook land of mountaintop castles and forts. [There are] bleak monochrome deserts festooned with flashes of bright color, where even modest homes can be over a thousand years old. There's nowhere else like it on earth. It really doesn't matter where the road takes you here. It doesn't matter where you find yourself when you wake up. Of all the places in the world, it has perhaps the biggest heart and the most beautiful things to see. Whether you wake up in a maharanah's palace or a swank hotel or a cheap hostel or a sand dune in the desert, you're grateful to be alive and still in India."