India is serenity, beauty, calmness. India is noise, pollution, crowds. India is irony, humor, drama. India is sharp contrasts, extreme wealth and extreme poverty.
India is a billion people and you get to see many facets of their lives in Clive Limpkin’s book,’India Exposed: The Subcontinent A-Z’ (Abbeyville Press)
All photos in this gallery are by Clive Limpkin. He is embarking on another trip to India in 2010 and wants to hear from readers with comments and suggestions - info@clivelimpkin.com
A billboard for Pepsi-flavored hookahs in Mumbai
Getting a clean shave on a slow day in Rajasthan
Woman in a Banni tribal village in Gujarat
A poor pilgrim in the Trichy Temple complex in Tamil Nadu
Lavina Melwani is a New York based journalist who writes for several international publications. If you enjoyed reading this, please link to it, comment on it and add to the conversation. Email this author | All posts by Lavina Melwani
Lavina, quite an amazing site,very impressed. I love the way you have articulated your thoughts which I know are extensive into a fine story. Kudos to you.
Yes, true: the Nano is brilliantly priced and adorable yet with 100s of 1000s more car users/gas consumers, India’s already very bad pollution issues will decidedly become much, much worse. Perhaps Tata can throw a shoulder into developing a Nano that at least meets current standard Bharat Stage IV emission norms.
Pritha (Tata’s Nano Comes to the Big Apple)
No worries about the pollution alarm, there’s a compressed air version in the works!
Amrita (Tata’s Nano Comes to the Big Apple)
Excellent article on the effects of the “Great Recession” on the Indian-American community.
Indian in New York - (The Blurring of the American Dream)
Thank you for this most interesting piece. The revival of the Bene Israelis by the Cochinis is most intriguing. Why did the Benes stop practicing in the first place when they were so large in numbers? Or were there some curbs on them at an earlier time?
Food for thought.
Atul Chatterjee (India – A Nurturing Sanctuary for Judaism )
Love the feature on Books .The pictures from India On my Mind are captivating.
Will look forward to your next Book Review.
Lavina, quite an amazing site,very impressed. I love the way you have articulated your thoughts which I know are extensive into a fine story. Kudos to you.