HAUNTING
INDIA
Memories Are Made of This...
Travel
back in time to old familiar places. Re-live yesteryear: sleeping under a
mosquito net on a bungalow lawn, the summer nights heady with the scent of
frangipani blossoms. Hear again the distant yowl of a jackal at dusk. Recall
the rhythm and clack of the wheels over the rails as rural India - tranquil
and timeless - speeds by your window. Read tales of cultural dislocation,
poignant reconciliatons, and ghostly encounters. Walk the throbbing streets
of Bombay, drop into Nizams in Calcutta - and chuckle at an encounter with
a macho camel trader at Pushkar.
Above all, come "home" once more to that greatly loved, but now
vanished world of Anglo-India.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
(and *excerpts from selected chapters)
Be-Longing
Random Winds
Eclipse
*The Chowkidar*
*The Shorter Road *
*Zarina's Doll*
St. Anthony's Horse
The Guardian Angel
*Those Were The Days*
II. Poetry:
Homesick
*I Witness*
III. India Travel:
Matheran:
Where the People are a "Friendly and Hospital Lot."
Pushkar: Camels for Sale
*Calcutta
Revisited*
The Backwaters of Kerala
*Rohinton Mistry's Bombay*
IV. Retrospectives:
*Essay:
Railway Life in Anglo-India*
Chasing Ghosts in Bombay
*Haunting India**
Epilogue
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Margaret Deefholts and CTR Inc.
(NOTE: Unauthorized reproduction of any excerpts from Haunting India, either
in part or in whole,
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