http://floatingsun.net/2006/10/07/sidhhartha/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sidhhartha Sat, 11 May 2013 19:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://floatingsun.net/2006/10/07/sidhhartha/#comment-12680 kowsik Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:46:22 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/10/07/753/#comment-12680 Try reading “Of Human Bondage” by Somerset Maugham for a ‘similar’ story that we can identify more with. It’s a long, but captivating, novel that is set in England in the pre-world-war times. The similarity with Siddhartha is restricted to the novel being about the life of one person, and the writer’s fascination with India (Ramana Maharshi in Maugham’s case).

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