| Pub. Date | : June, 2022 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJES050622 |
| Author Name | :Sukanya Saha |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 14 |
Studies on travel writing in India are gaining momentum currently. People traveling to the nooks and corners of India or abroad and exploring geographies and ethnicities with their customized itineraries, visions and missions, and perspectives, are adding to its blossoming. The socioeconomic and political constraints of the past that hindered travels and writings consequent to them, are fast diminishing in the globalized world with increased knowledge, technology, awareness and above all, appetite for exploration. Overcoming the taboo and stigma attached to traveling and anxieties of physical discomforts, the travel enthusiasts are gauging the width and length of the evolution of the human race on earth. Deepankar Aron's travelogue is a tribute to the deep cultural connect that India shared with China and East Asia along the silk route, evident through similarities in manners of worshipping, ceremonies, customs, grottoes, cave temples, and of course statues of the omnipresent Buddha. The paper identifies the canons intrinsic to travel writings with Deepankar Aron's On the Trail of Buddha: A Journey to the East as its primary source for discussions, and argues why travel writing must be included in curricula alongside core literature courses in higher education.