Inhaling the Mahatma
Author(s): Christopher Kremmer
Travel and Holidays | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh | Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, Letters, Interviews
In the searing summer of 2004, Christopher Kremmer returns to India, a country in the grip of enormous and sometimes violent change. As a young reporter in the 1990s, he first encountered this ancient and complex civilisation. Now, embarking on a yatra, or pilgrimage, he travels the dangerous frontier where religion and politics face off. Tracking down the players in a decisive decade, he takes us inside the enigmatic Gandhi dynasty, and introduces an operatic cast of political Brahmins, 'cyber coolies', low-caste messiahs and wrestling priests. A sprawling portrait of India at the crossroads, Inhaling the Mahatma is also an intensely personal story about coming to terms with a dazzlingly different culture, as the author's fate is entwined with a cosmopolitan Hindu family of Old Delhi, and a guru who might just change his life. First published 2006.
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Product Information
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
- : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- : 0.616
- : 01 April 2006
- : 234mm X mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Christopher Kremmer
- : Paperback
- : illustrated edition
- : 915.4053
- : good-very good
- : 424
- : illustrations, maps