Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Author: William Dalrymple
Year: 2009
Really interesting "interviews" of some people from today's India.
"His subjects include a South Indian ‘devadasi’ (temple prostitute), a Buddhist monk who fought the Chinese invasion of Tibet and an illiterate Rajasthani goat heard who sings – and keeps alive – a 4,000-line sacred epic. They represent the religious pluralism and geographical diversity of the Subcontinent, yet they all live in the parts ‘suspended between modernity and tradition’ and their ways of dealing with the threat of modernisation have much in common. These are neither the drivers nor the benefitters of India's economic 'boom' and it is from their persepctive that it is presented."
Rate: 8/10
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