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In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.

Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than 50 years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society - the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces.

With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books, V.S. Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam–in a book that combines the fascinations of great travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original and idiosyncratic political mind.

Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among the Believers, V.S. Naipaul returned to the four non-Arab Islamic countries he reported on so vividly at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini’s triumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is the result of his five-month journey in 1995 through lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions.

Den danske globetrotter Birgitte Valvanne tilbragte næsten 10 år i Indien, hvor hun blev betaget af både den farverige kultur, indernes hverdag og traditionel filosofi. Gennem årene kom hun i kontakt med alle lag i det indiske samfund. I denne bog giver hun et unikt indblik i det 20. århundredets Indien, som de færreste danskere havde førstehåndsadgang til dengang. Birgitte Valvanne (1899-1979) var en dansk billedkunstner og forfatter.

La región de los Toraja se encuentra enclavada en la zona montañosa de la isla indonesia de Célebes. Aún hoy es complicado llegar ya que sólo está comunicada por tierra y el trayecto desde el aeropuerto más cercano toma ocho horas por unas carreteras angostas y sinuosas. Sin embargo, vale la pena el viaje.