I’m big on books. A life without books would be no life at all. I read every day. I couldn’t imagine a day passing by without me dipping in...
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Mind Maps of the Past & Present
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis (Oxford University Press, 2004) History is a construct, a matte...
Finding Krishna in Tibet - Perceval Landon
“Gems and wrought gold, never sold – brought for me to behold them; Tales of far magic unrolled – to me only he told them, With the light, ...
A Questing Curiosity
IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA: ACROSS IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA TO FIND THE WORLD’S FIRST PROPHET by Paul Kriwaczek (Vintage, 2002) I stumbled upo...
Captain Tripe's Early Photographs of India & Burma
Captain Linnaeus Tripe is a major, yet now sadly little known, figure in the history of early photography. Whilst in service with the Madra...
Betrayal in the High Himalaya - Sikkim & Tibet
I recently attended the launch events of two newly published books relating to the Himalayas. Although the two books focus on different cou...