How to Win Friends and Avoid Sacred Cows: Weird Adventures in India - Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims when the Peace Corps was New : Ardent Writer Press, LLC : 9781938667633 : 1938667638 : 08 Dec 2016 : Gecko in your tea will kill you? Beggars and Fashion Models? Palm Reading Policemen? But also a place where recycling is second nature.A place where men break into singing, whenever they feel the urge.This is India. This is what a 1960s Peace Corps volunteer remembers and had to write down.AS A NINTH-GENERATION CALIFORNIAN who was raised in the suburbs of Anaheim (or as it came to be known, ?Disneyland?), attended public high school and Cal State University?Long Beach, and was later to marry a pretty redhead from nearby Fullerton, the last place on Earth that David Macaray ever expected to wind up was rural India. Farm country.But in 1967 he was sent there (to Punjab State) as a Peace Corps volunteer. The bucolic, outdoor environment was a jolt. David was ignorant of ?farm life.? How ignorant