Gorgeously jaw-dropping, India has been beautifully redesigned with 32 additional pages of glorious photos shot by Eric Meola since India was first published.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 ContentsINDIA: 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---

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