Everywhere
one
looks
in
India,
time-hallowed
tradition
meets
the
twenty-first
century
head-on
in
a
dizzying
cocktail
of
intense
impressions.
Peacocks
sit
imperiously
atop
satellite
dishes;
elephants
and
cows
cause
good-natured
traffic
jams;
processions
of
naked
ascetics
amble
past
crowded
cyber
cafes.
All
humanity
seems
on
the
move
on
India’s
roads
where
the
latest
Mercedes
jostles
with
wooden
bullock-carts
designed
five
thousand
years
ago
and
painted
trucks,
vertiginously
laden,
lurch
past
brilliant
swathes
of
cotton,
silk
and
chillies
spread
out
to
dry
in
the
scorching
sun
beneath
impossible
tangles
of
telephone
wires.
The
city
streets,
sizzling
with
entrepreneurial
energy,
are
packed
with
people,
yet
beyond
the
cities
lie
the
somnolent
villages
where
seven
out
of
every
ten
Indians
live
and
time
hangs
suspended;
beyond
them
again
stretch
tranquil
forests
and
silent
deserts
where
wild
animals
still
reign. Published in
Singapore by Periplus
Reviews
'This is a wonderful introduction to India, with text by Alistair Shearer and superb photographs by award-winning photographer' - Michael Freeman
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