Gorgeously jaw-dropping, <i>India</i> has been beautifully redesigned with 32 additional pages of glorious photos shot by Eric Meola since <i>India</i> was first published.<br><br>This revised and expanded version of Eric Meola's 2008 <i>India</i> 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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Table of Contents<br><br><b>INDIA: In Word & Image</b><br> <b>Photographs by Eric Meola</b><br> <br> Contents<br> <br> 19 Eric Meola<br> My Private India<br> 24 Bharati Mukherjee<br> Introduction<br> 29 Salman Rushdie<br> Midnight’s Children<br> 34 I. Allan Sealy<br> The Trotter-Nama<br> 47 R. K. Narayan<br> Ganga’s Story<br> 52 R. K. Narayan<br> The Ramayana<br> 63 William Buck<br> Mahabharata<br> 67 R. K. Narayan<br> Mr. Sampath—The Printer of Malgudi<br> 71 Gita Mehta<br> A River Sutra<br> 83 Kiran Desai<br> The Inheritance of Loss<br> 86 Manil Suri<br> The Death of Vishnu<br> 94 R. K. Narayan<br> The Guide<br> 100 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala<br> The Housewife<br> 110 Jhumpa Lahiri<br> Interpreter of Maladies<br> 119 Thomas Byrom<br> Dhammapada<br> 120 Anita Desai<br> Fasting, Feasting<br> 129 Amit Chaudhuri<br> A Strange and Sublime Address<br> 132 Nirad C. Chaudhuri<br> My Birthplace<br> 136 R. K. Narayan<br> The Dark Room<br> 147 Nirad C. Chaudhuri<br> My Birthplace<br> 150 Kiran Desai<br> Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard<br> 163 Salman Rushdie<br> Midnight’s Children<br> 169 Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee<br> Days and Nights in Calcutta<br> 178 Rabindranath Tagore<br> Subha<br> 182 Upamanyu Chatterjee<br> English, August<br> 185 Vikram Seth<br> A Suitable Boy<br> 190 Amit Chaudhuri<br> A Strange and Sublime Address<br> 194 Arundhati Roy <br> The God of Small Things<br> 198 Anita Desai<br> Fasting, Feasting<br> 203 O. V. Vijayan<br> The River<br> 211 Kamala Markandaya<br> Nectar in a Sieve<br> 214 Amit Chaudhuri<br> Sandeep’s Visit<br> 222 Gita Mehta<br> A River Sutra<br> 232 V. S. Naipaul<br> An Area of Darkness<br> 239 Manil Suri<br> The Death of Vishnu<br> 243 Ismat Chughtai<br> The Wedding Shroud<br> 246 Nirad C. Chaudhuri<br> The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian<br> 250 Nirad C. Chaudhuri<br> My Birthplace<br> 254 Anita Desai<br> A Devoted Son<br> 260 Kamala Markandaya<br> Nectar in a Sieve<br>---