Paul William Roberts's journeys through India span twenty years, and in Empire of the Soul, he creates a dazzling mosaic, by turns tragic and comic, of the subcontinent and its people. From the crumbling palaces of maharajas to the slums of Calcutta;...
This book reverses the order of Dante's Divine Comedy. It begins in a pre-war paradise, enters the purgatory of the war, and then visits the post-war infernal reality of a hopelessly maimed war ravaged people living in a hell ruled by a homicidal me...