India: Then And Now
Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Vir Sanghvi
India lives in many centuries. Discover the majesty and sweep of India’s rich cultural and historical heritage, replete with the people, events and places that have contributed to the chequered mosaic of India’s past. Featured in this exquisite book are rare and never-before-seen vintage photographs from some of the finest collections across the world.
India Now
India lives in many centuries. The vibrant and ever-changing cultural landscape of India is featured in a series of photographs, showcasing the multifaceted, kaleidoscopic present. The timeless past lives amidst fast-paced, cutting-edge change. Modernity and tradition co-exist in the most endearing and surprising of places. India Now is a visual feast of contemporary India.
Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and journalist. Currently running the editorial pages of The Telegraph, he has held various academic posts and taught, among others, at Calcutta, Princeton and Manchester universities. He is the author of several books, most recently Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero, India Then and Now, Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance and Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres. He is also the editor of The Penguin Gandhi Reader and Great Speeches of Modern India. Mukherjee lives in Kolkata. Pramod Kapoor is a collector of historical records and photographs, and a publisher by prefession. The photographs for this book were lovingly collected over a long period of time from all over the world.
Vir Sanghvi is probably the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. He became founder-editor of Bombay magazine when he was twenty-two and his career has included editorships of Imprint, one of India s first feature magazines, of Sunday, then India s largest-selling weekly newsmagazine, and of the Hindustan Times, north India s biggest English-language daily. Sanghvi also has a parallel career as an award-winning TV interviewer and has hosted various successful shows on the Star TV network and on the NDTV news channel. Among his other accomplishments is his role as India s premier food writer. His book Rude Food won the Cointreau Award, the International Food Business s Oscar for Best Food Literature Book in the world. He is the author (along with Rudrangshu Mukherjee) of India: Then and Now, also published by Roli Books --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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