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Title:
THE AGE OF KALI
TRAVELS AND ENCOUNTERS IN INDIA
By:
William Dalrymple
Format:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
0006547753
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9780006547754
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Publisher:
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pub. date:
24 February, 1999
Pages:
416
Description:
William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in `City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.
Synopsis:
William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in `City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train.Dalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti - She Who Is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids.`The Age of Kali' is the fourth fascinating volume from the author of `In Xanadu', `City of Djinns' and `From the Holy Mountain'.
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