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 · Nine Lives by William Dalrymple William Dalrymple's study of the people and beliefs of India ranks with the very finest travel writing, says Ruaridh Nicoll Revellers at Author: Ruaridh Nicoll.  · ‘Nine Lives’ Read in app. By William Dalrymple. J; The Nun’s bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India is a travelogue comprised of ethnographic research and personal reflection written by British journalist William Dalrymple. Dalrymple, an on and off resident of the Indian subcontinent over the course of more than two decades, traveled across the country to profile nine Indians whose lives had been significantly shaped by faith.

About Nine Lives. From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explore the challenges faced by practitioners of traditional forms of faith in. Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the region's rapid change. Nine Lives successfully celebrates the capability of faith to offer peace to those having suffered traumatic lives. Dalrymple brilliantly captures the modern offshoots of India when he delivers an.

Nine Lives by William Dalrymple — A Thematic Review. Myths pick up the pieces where philosophy throws up its hands. The great myths may help survivors to think through this unthinkable. A mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change. William Dalrymple is the author of six previous acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; the best-selling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain’s most prestigious history prize, the. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India is a travelogue comprised of ethnographic research and personal reflection written by British journalist William Dalrymple. Dalrymple, an on and off resident of the Indian subcontinent over the course of more than two decades, traveled across the country to profile nine Indians whose lives had been significantly shaped by faith.