‘India On the Go’ is a wide-ranging and highly informative miscellany of cameo essays on India – her past, present and future. Crafted with insight, wit and learning lightly worn, it covers topics that veer effortlessly from diamonds to deities; elephants to economics; fakirs to filmmakers; maharajahs, mangoes and marijuana to mathematics, music and Modi. A chronicle of the dizzying convergence of alternative realities that is 21st century India, this is an absorbing sequel to the authors ‘Views from an Indian Bus’. It is a must for anyone interested in the subcontinent: the perfect appetiser for those contemplating a visit, a most agreeable travelling companion while there and a vividly evocative souvenir of the journey.
Alistair Shearer is a cultural historian specialising in the art and architecture of the Indian subcontinent, a former lecturer at The School of Oriental and African Studies at London University and a teacher of meditation and the psychology of yoga. His books have been translated into all major European languages, as well as Japanese and Hebrew, and his translation of the Yoga Sutras has remained in print for almost forty years Alistair is co-creator of an award winning retreat hotel (www.neeleshwarhermitage.com) on the coast of Malabar, in Kerala.
Publisher: UK Book Publishing (2 Mar. 2025)
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