Essay "Rama Bridge" from Zheng Chen's travel notes in India

I finished reading Zheng Chen’s Indian travelogue "Rama Bridge"

The book is a bit different from what I thought.

However, after reading the book, India always feels lifeless. Perhaps due to religion, many people are waiting, doing things slowly and casually. But this kind of casualness is due to being content with the arrangements of fate and placing hope and religious expectations for the next life.

The book reveals a lot of bad things about India. I don’t know if I expected to read this before reading this book, but the India depicted in the book is really hard to like. Everything seems to be content with the status quo, and no one is trying to change it. Picture

The noisy streets in India, the greed of neighbors, seeing others' mercy and help as God's arrangement without being grateful, repeating the same fate from generation to generation, greed for money, due to politics The persecution of the Chinese in India, the need to ask for bribes when doing things, the slums all over the place, the children who chase tourists to sell things, the children who chase cars and throw stones, the gaps and discrimination between castes. . . . Wait, wait, this is the shortcoming of the description. There are some bright spots, but there are too few. There are kind-hearted hotel attendants, but most of them are greedy people.

Miss Darjeeling’s hometown and experience are somewhat different, and Miss Darjeeling’s love is also touching, but it seems to be just a small piece of paradise in India.

I feel like what I expected to see was not this kind of travelogue.