Full Tilt - Dervla Murphy

 

Full Tilt by the Dervla Murphy is her experience of travel from Ireland to India with a bicycle. The journey started on 14th Jan 1963. 53rd of 2021

Epictetus  put it in a nutshell when he said 'for i is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship'.

 And the route of the journey was from Dunkirk to Teheran. Through  the Afghan Frontier, Herat to Kabul to Bamian to Pul-I-Kumari to Jalalabad to Peshawar to Saidu Sharif to Rawalpindi to Gulapur to Sher Quila Rakaposhi to Babusar to Abbottabad and Lahore to Delhi.

Few thoughts on her way comparing Persia to Afghanistan 'is it that if a nation expends sufficient energy to get to a peak she hasn't enough left to maintain herself there and false for, where as if she remains at a certain restricted level Limited degree of national well being can be maintained indefinitely? I suppose history prove that this is the pattern'. 

She is clear that Kashmir  should  be part of Pakistan  based on partition agreements and if India had as much guts as Afghanistan  she would  not have been  conquered.