The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters By William
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- Title: The
Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
- Author: William Dalrymple
- Publisher: Lonely
Planet
- Pages: 385
- Size: 610 KB
- Language: English
- Extension: PDF
- Year: 2000
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters By William
Dalrymple | Free PDF Download | Ebook download
William Dalrymple has proved himself to be one
of the most perceptive and enjoyable travel writers of the 1990s. His first
book, In Xanadu, became an instant backpacker's classic, winning a
stream of literary prizes. City of Djinns and From the
Holy Mountain soon followed, to universal critical praise. Yet it is
India that Dalrymple continues to return to in his travels, and his fourth
book, The Age of Kali, is his most reflective book to date.
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 Yug, the Age
of Kali, the lowest possible throw, an epoch of strife, corruption, darkness,
and disintegration." "The brilliance of this book lies in its refusal
to reflect any cultural pessimism. Dalrymple's love for the subcontinent, and
his feel for its diverse cultural identity, comes across in every page, which
makes its chronicles of political corruption, ethnic violence, and social
disintegration all the more poignant. The scope of the book is particularly
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. Some of the most fascinating sections of the book are Dalrymple's
interviews with Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, which read like
nonfiction companion pieces to Salman Rushdie's bitterly satirical Shame. The
Age of Kali is a dark, disturbing book that takes the pulse of a
continent facing some tough questions.
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