“bill aitken”

Born to a poor family in the village of Puttaparthi in southern Andhra Pradesh, Sathyanarayan Raju was a bright, talented and confident boy whose charitable nature and religiosity belied his tender age. Deeply suspicious of his spiritual precociousness, his father made him go through a traumatic exo... More

Himalayan Quiz covers the entire spectrum of the Himalayas from the East to the West and deals with history, geography, life style, religion, ecology and sports of the region.... More

The Himalayan Journal (HJ), published since 1929, had a series ofleading editors over the years and it is an authoritative and exhaustive recordon the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindukush, for exploration, mountaineering andsport. Ofthe several leading authors who have contributed articles in the HJ t... More

An unorthodox pilgrimage along India’s riversFlowing by Himalayan glaciers, dusty mofussil towns, impenetrable forests and hundreds of tiny villages, India’s sacred rivers harbour legend, foster myth and exert a powerful spiritual attraction. Drawn by their irresistible mystique, Bill Aitkin set... More

‘There is a kind of brotherhood between man and mountains.... The inescapable logic of desire leaves the mountain traveller no choice but to plan his next expedition to the very peak that may have just rejected vociferously the most singleminded of advances.’ In his thirty-year sojourn in India,... More

Well-known travel writer Bill Aitken was fifty years old when he first got on a bike. And then he chose to attempt the near impossible a solo motorcycle ride across the Himalaya and the Sahyadri, the most challenging mountain ranges of India. Over the next ten years, Aitken traversed practically the... More

In a series of journeys that take him from the austere beauty of Ladakh to the clamorous and colourful south, from the dense jungles of Arunachal to the arid desert of the west, Bill Aitken introduces us to the world of steam locomotion in India. Nostalgic and evocative, and enlivened with a wicke... More

Elementary Maths for Biologists is an exciting new textbook written for first year life science students. The book helps students revise their school-level maths and extend it into biological applications. Richly illustrated with four-color photos and diagrams, it avoids the traditional maths book p... More