Author: Ganesh Salil
Kamal Gill/
Publisher: Roli Books
Year: 1998/2002
Language: English
Pages: 136
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8174361146
Description
This art-book offers written and visual images of a beautiful country, vignettes thattranscend time to bring alive the spirit of one of the world's oldest civilizations.
AnIndian journey is rich in its diversity, a colorful exploration of people, places, myths, monuments,art, culture, cuisine and celebrations. And India is a country not so much for seeing asfor experiencing. In a departure from the merely exotic, A Passage Through India is ajourney into the heartlands of a nation that writers, since the dawn of time ,have beenexploring for independent interpretation. This account of a journey through India followsthe natural contours of the land, and is amply illustrated with rare pictures from thesensitive camera of a gifted photographer.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Ganesh Saili was born and brought up in Mussoorie where he teaches English and AmericanLiterature at the Post Graduate College. He traveled through the length and breadth ofIndia to take the pictures for this book. Ganesh Saili together with Ruskin Bond has alsopublished Mussoorie and Landour: Days of Wine and Roses. He has published extensivelyin magazines and newspapers in India and abroad.