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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters William Dalrymple, HarperCollins Publishers
Publisher: Lonely Planet

Title: The Age of Kali – Indian Travels and Encounters. As William Dalrymple was told again and again on his travels around the Indian subcontinent, the region is now in the throes of the 'Kali Yug', the Age of Kali, an epoch of darkness and disintegration. He encounters such figures as Benazir Bhutto and Imran Khan and meets with ostracised inmates of a widows' home. Find 0 Sale, Discount and Low Cost items for KALI - prices as low as $5.11. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters by William Dalrymple. All About The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters PDF. In such an age normal conventions fall apart: anything is possible. His first book, In Xanadu, became an instant backpacker's classic, winning a stream of literary prizes. I'm beginning the new year by exploring India via the exceedingly well-written word. William Dalrymple has proved himself to be one of the most perceptive and enjoyable travel writers of the 1990s. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters PDF PDF Downlaod. In one of William Dalrymple's Indian travelogues (Age of Kali, I think), he encounters the same place, and at least at the time of that writing, it was still sadly going strong. Description: William Dalrymple has proved himself to be one of the most perceptive and enjoyable travel writers of the 1990s. Publisher: Flamingo, 1999 (First published 1998). Finished The Age Of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters by William Dalrymple, published in 2000. The result of 10 year's living and traveling throughout the Indian subcontinent, The Age of Kali emerges from Dalrymple's uneasy sense that the region is slipping into the most fearsome of all epochs in ancient Hindu cosmology: “the Kali impressive, from the vivid opening chapters portraying the lawless caste violence of Bihar, to interviews with the drug barons on the North-West Frontier, and Dalrymple's extraordinary encounter with the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.