The Rough Guide to India

The Rough Guide to India by Rough Guides
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

There’s a lot of improvement work to do within this guide. While it claims to be the latest edition; there’s still passages that are yet to be updated. It’s frustrating when you buy a guide that’s published in 2019 to find that approximate dates for festivals in the past are included, and that the writer hasn’t updated these sections. And when it comes to grammar, a lot of proofreading has been skipped. The introduction is exotic enough, the basics section is very off-putting when it comes to the health section; within each listing there’s also tales of overcrowding and harassment which is enough to make you wonder if this is really a trip for you. The few photographs that are in the guide are quite random at times, and the images within the chapters focus on daily everyday Indian life rather than the sites that are described within; they’re also out of sync with the text. That page could have been divided up into four smaller images and would still be a decent size to showcase within the page. Instead, the guide makes lots of use of similes to get its point across. I hope that the attached e-book is a bit more up to date. I think I’ll have to consider another series when purchasing future guides.

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