This revised and expanded version of Eric Meola's 2008 India takes the reader on a journey through Mumbai, Rajasthan, Agra, Dungarpur, along desert roads, to the Ganges water's edge, including spectacular ruins, the Taj Mahal, and the Festival of Elephants, capturing the spectacle and vibrant colors of these ancient regions.

INDIA is rapidly becoming one of the pre-eminent leaders of the twenty-first century. For more than a decade, Eric Meola has returned repeatedly to India, photographing the people, temples, landscapes, architecture, celebrations, and art of this uniquely exuberant and incredibly diverse country. Meola's journeys took him from the Himalayas and monasteries in the North to the temples of Tamil Nadu in the South, from the color and pageantry of Rajasthan in the West to the tea plantations of Darjeeling in the East. Over 200 photographs (edited from more than 25,000 images) will fill this beautifully printed, large-format book. The photographs will be accompanied by dozens of essays, stories, and poems by contemporary and classical Indian writers.

Table of Contents

INDIA: In Word & Image
Photographs by Eric Meola

Contents

19 Eric Meola
My Private India
24 Bharati Mukherjee
Introduction
29 Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
34 I. Allan Sealy
The Trotter-Nama
47 R. K. Narayan
Ganga's Story
52 R. K. Narayan
The Ramayana
63 William Buck
Mahabharata
67 R. K. Narayan
Mr. Sampath--The Printer of Malgudi
71 Gita Mehta
A River Sutra
83 Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss
86 Manil Suri
The Death of Vishnu
94 R. K. Narayan
The Guide
100 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Housewife
110 Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
119 Thomas Byrom
Dhammapada
120 Anita Desai
Fasting, Feasting
129 Amit Chaudhuri
A Strange and Sublime Address
132 Nirad C. Chaudhuri
My Birthplace
136 R. K. Narayan
The Dark Room
147 Nirad C. Chaudhuri
My Birthplace
150 Kiran Desai
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
163 Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
169 Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee
Days and Nights in Calcutta
178 Rabindranath Tagore
Subha
182 Upamanyu Chatterjee
English, August
185 Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy
190 Amit Chaudhuri
A Strange and Sublime Address
194 Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
198 Anita Desai
Fasting, Feasting
203 O. V. Vijayan
The River
211 Kamala Markandaya
Nectar in a Sieve
214 Amit Chaudhuri
Sandeep's Visit
222 Gita Mehta
A River Sutra
232 V. S. Naipaul
An Area of Darkness
239 Manil Suri
The Death of Vishnu
243 Ismat Chughtai
The Wedding Shroud
246 Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
250 Nirad C. Chaudhuri
My Birthplace
254 Anita Desai
A Devoted Son
260 Kamala Markandaya
Nectar in a Sieve
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