The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters (Vintage Departures)
M**H
Great portrayal
I am from India and I think the author did a superb job of an outsider's depiction of India. It's dark, it's gritty, it's real. This book deserves to be in your bookshelf (after of course you have read it!!)
B**D
Another winner from Dalrymple
Dalrymple is a fine writer; here he talks about some of the problems currently facing his beloved India. It's at times frightening, but it's a very fine book, like all of his.
R**R
I read it years ago and loved it. I love everything Mr Dalrymple writes
This was purchased as a gift. I read it years ago and loved it. I love everything Mr Dalrymple writes.
B**R
Stories of uncommon insights and tales that can be only be told when the story teller is truly genuine!
Stories of Pakistaan, such as these, are not to be found anywhere else, I daresay! WIsh there were some followups on some of the stories, such as the one on Ms. Bhutto!
K**R
Five Stars
Wonderful book on near present day problems in India.
M**Y
India in depth, in my opinion.
Dalyrymple never disappoints. I'm reading all his books before I go to India.
B**B
TEDIOUS
...certainly nothing like his "The Last Mughal"...basically a boring way to spend a rainy afternoon! read to say you did!
J**K
The Kali Yug
In the context of periodic articles, it was well-done. The nature of the fact that articles were written at differing times may mean there is a bit of repetition and seeming odd structure. However, it's in the context of the introduction with the various ages of Time, that the book connectsWe are in the Kali Yug, the age of Kali, the end age where are is disintegrating. And Dalrymple's book is a series of articles about that disintegration. Having traveled through India, it is a country of ruins, of change, of poverty, of collapse with pockets of rebuilding. This book was familiar.All of his books on India are worth a read.
H**A
Very intelligent writer
This book of relatively short stories (or rather articles) was my first encounter with William Dalrymple. A surprisingly good one! Most of books about India are rather sentimental, with India seen through a mist of naivety, yoga, food, gurus, saris, etc. Dalrymple lives there, obviously knows the country and its society very well, and presents India as it is. This is both surprising, educational and refreshing. A very intelligent and good writer. I will certainly read more by him.
