Priya's Passport of Peculiar Politics: A Diplomatic Comedy in Ten Countries

Ambassador Priya Sharma has negotiated fisheries disputes, survived three-hundred- slide presentations, and once sat through a six-hour summit in which the sandwiches >She thought she understood the world. She >Priya's Passport of Peculiar Politics follows India's Ambassador-at-Large for Cultural Diplomacy across ten countries and ten utterly inexplicable, completely logical, surprisingly moving customs. She will bow in Seoul (at the wrong angle), share breath in Wellington (at some velocity), negotiate in a Finnish sauna (professionally unimpressed by the heat), eat from ten houses in Kuala Lumpur (adaptively), and stand in a town square in England while three hundred people boo >Along the way, she discovers what no briefing document ever quite explains: that every culture's strangest custom is, at its root, an answer to the same question - how do we show each other >The answers are elaborate. They are sincere. They are occasionally very loud. And every single one of them, it turns out, makes perfect sense.

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