On Indian textiles and craftsmanship
A comprehensive work on contemporary Indian textiles and their making
A twice-born tale
American Phil Deutschle chronicles his days as a teacher in a Nepali village and as a trekker in the Khumbu region
Afghanistan in the 1920s
Bengali littérateur Syed Mujtaba Ali’s tongue-in-cheek narrative about life in Afghanistan in the 1920s. Translated by Nazes Afroz.
Travel classic: The Hill of Devi, 1953
Damon Galgut talks about E.M. Forster and his detailed observations of British Raj which he documented in his journals (one such is his book –The Hill of Devi–)
Reflections of Kumbh Mela
Spirit of Kumbh is a coffee-table book full of scenes from one of the largest religious gathering–Kumbh Mela
Ruskin Bond at his simple best
A Book of Simple Living–a collection of brief notes by Ruskin Bond on nature and people of his beloved Garhwali hills
A tale of highway robberies
JonathanGil Harris– book The First Firangis is a tale of highway robberies with a twist–the dacoits and the victims being migrants to India during the reign of Shah Jahan
Travel classic: The Places in Between, 2004
Rory Stewart–s sensitive narrative of the complex Afghan history and landscape make the book –The Places in Between– Sarah Waters– favourite travelogue
All over the map
Travelling In, Travelling Out, an anthology, is a dismal failure — like flowers of varying lustre tossed higgledy-piggledy into a vase
Travel classic: The Odyssey
The author, Sam Miller, feels that Robert Fagles– translation of Homer–s Odyssey gives the real sense of travel
Red of tooth and claw
Wild Fire is a great way to immerse oneself in the wildlife wonderland that was India
Royal recipe
This cookbook is more about sampling lesser-known — yet hardly lesser — banquets of historic legacy
Travel classic: American Notes, 1843
Author and columnist, Joanna Rakoff, finds it fascinating that Dickens– account of America still holds true
Perspectives on paradise
Goa Travels is an exquisite collection of travelogues about the state we have all come to love