The search for solace often leads to India. It’s a country with such a powerful culture, that – as American professor Robert Thurman once observed – it has a way of absorbing its invaders. The grand finale of the British Empire, for example, was The Beatles smoking hash in an ashram. That ashram was in Rishikesh, now the yoga capital of the world.
Rishikesh, on the banks of the Ganges, is a place where, it is said, the gods can better hear your wishes. I arrived there on Valentine’s
