FLOWER CHILDREN 

I've been looking for this book for the past few months by Rory Maclean called THE MAGIC BUS: ON THE HIPPY TRAIL FROM ISTANBUL TO INDIA. If anyone can spot it in a bookstore in Delhi, please inform me. 

Do read this interview with the writer on worldhum.com. Below are some excerpts: 

"In the ‘60s, books—and song lyrics—were central to communicating ideas. Lyrics inspired, guided—or in some cases misguided—the search for a new way of living, expressing genuine concern for the state of the world."

"Much of the travel market has become aspirational, rather than inspirational, meaning travelers aspire to do as others have done: to walk alone in the Hindu Kush, to find a forgotten house in Provence, to discover that secret, deserted Thai beach. No one dares to point out that there are no more undiscovered beaches. That the world has been mapped. That every country on the planet is described in one or another book. Despite this, every generation discovers the world anew. Its young men and women that redefine the foreign and so come to know themselves better."

Like I've been telling two of my friends off late, that I feel my soul is from the 60's. Yeah, I am an 80's kid and I do identify with some of the madness of that decade. But I saw Woodstock (1970), and I haven't gotten over it yet. I knew I was there....in my last life! :)