Nine Lives: In Search Of The Sacred In Modern India

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Book: Nine Lives: In Search Of The Sacred In Modern India
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet—then spends years trying to atone for the violence by hand-printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, to find unexpected love and fulfilment living as a tantric in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. A devadasi initially resists her initiation into sex work, yet pushes her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling.

These are among the nine lives whose mesmerizing and unforgettable stories William Dalrymple tells with an almost biblical simplicity in his first travel book in a decade. A distillation of twenty-five years of travelling around and observing India, Nine Lives takes us deep into worlds we would never have imagined existed, even as it explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change.

William Dalrymple is one of the most highly regarded popular historians in the world today. The Spectator has rightly called him ‘the greatest travel writer of his generation’. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. City of Djinns won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. White Mughals won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. His most recent book, The Last Mughal, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Vodafone Crossword Award for non-fiction and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Among his other books are From the Holy Mountain and The Age of Kali.

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What a beautiful book.... Dalrymple has outshone himself from simply being a brilliant historian to the most compassionate, empathitic and erudite story-teller of modern India. Each of the stories in this poignantly sensitive book have been dealt with such love, humility and understanding towards the protagonist in the story, that the writer almost disappears as a non judgemental narrative voice in the background. Its almost like seeing the story visually with Dalrymple's kind voice in the background. Kind because, he treats his characters with such respect and kindness. Even though, there is an air of melancholy permeating through the pages; the reader carries after completing each story - a feeling of depth, satisfaction and sense of gratitude to have just read an almost mythical hero living amongst us. Dalrymple has shown us in this book, his fine art of seeing the 'profound in the profane' once again.
For a sensitive reader like me, this is a rare piece of art. Thanks