What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five...
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Lonely Planet India on Kindle! Things are not looking good for those bound sheaves of paper we call books! Kindle is here to stay and with it a whole host of readers like Ipads, Sony Readers and Nooks. On the plus side, travelling just became a whole lot lighter, especially when you can bring...
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Chef magazine called this book’s author “the best-known ambassador of Indian food in the United States” . . . and the Boston Herald referred to her as “the renowned author and actress teaches home cooks about the sophistication and infinite diversity of Indian fare.” The New York Times described her simply and succinctly...
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The Holy Cow and Other Animals: A Selection of Indian Paintings from The Art Institute of Chicago Within any collection of Indian paintings, a great percentage will contain animal imagery. The aim of this publication is to provide an account of the fascinating interaction between the realms of the animals and of the mortals...
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This beautifully produced photographic guide to the birds of India covers 800 species found across the Subcontinent. Each bird’s description is illustrated with one or more images and there are introductory sections contain basic information of use to visiting birders, such as the biogeography of the region covered, advice on the best timing of...
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Despite the slightly dodgy cover, Chef Zubins book All-India Vegetarian Cookbook: A Subzi Sutra Containing the Secrets of India’s Vegetarian Cuisine is a gem of a cookery book, containing a fantastic selection of Indian recipes, spices and store cupboard tips, and the quintessential humour that fans of Chef Zubin’s writing on theindiaphile have come...
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Meetha Lassi and Bhel Puri; Paneer Tikka and masalas; chutneys, biryanis and samosas. All visitors to India are greeted by a quite astonishing display of roadside snacks throughout the country: from the teeming lanes of Old Delhi to the hot and dusty streets of the remote countryside. It is painfully hard to resist the...
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Histories of photography, as presented through books or exhibitions in the twentieth century, have been dominated by Europe and America. This publication and the exhibition it accompanies, articulate the untold story of an equally significant history, as rich and as formally innovative, yet embedded in the culture and politics of South Asia. Where Three...
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