I happened to watch parts of the film Eat Pray Love online, based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s stupendously successful memoir of self discovery after divorce. Julia Roberts is luminous and delicate, despite her weird Indian wardrobe and Javier Bardem is charmingly disheveled though miscast as a loser, because it’s hard to imagine women leaving him. I enjoyed the book and I can’t wait to watch it properly, on a big screen a few weeks from now.
After Gilbert’s account of Bali in her memoir, the island has seen a revolution of sorts, and it’s become a sought after destination for people looking to redevelop their spirituality. There are Eat Pray Love tours and Trip Advisor is full of reviews for yoga and meditation lessons and packages where you can learn to “go inside yourself” like Gilbert did. Unfortunately, Gilbert’s large section devoted to learning to pray in India hasn’t really paid off for tourism here the way it has for Bali ; there are very few hits for the ashram in the South where she allegedly experienced enlightenment. It would require a more imaginative and quicker-witted bureaucrat than what we have to capitalise on the India section of this book: the potential is huge, considering the book has sold more than 7 million copies. (MORE)
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