The Age of Kali is a 1998 travel book by William Dalrymple. The book's theme is trouble in the Indian subcontinent and the Hindu belief in a time called the Kali Yuga.

Dalrymple, eigentlich William Hamilton-Dalrymple, ist der Sohn von Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, einem Cousin der Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf. Er besuchte das Ampleforth College und das Trinity College Cambridge, wo er Geschichte studierte. Dalrymple ist verheiratet mit der Künstlerin Olivia Fraser. Das Paar hat drei Kinder und lebt.

25.04.2005 · The result of 10 year's living and travelling throughout the Indian subcontinent, The Age of Kali emerges from Dalrymple's uneasy sense that the region is slipping into the most fearsome of all epochs in ancient Hindu cosmology: "the Kali Yug, the Age of Kali, the lowest possible throw, an epoch of strife, corruption, darkness and disintegration".

William Dalrymple is one of the best travel writers about. His book "THE AGE OF KALI" is a collection of essays written during his many travels over the years through India. Don't be deceived by the title, although Dalrymple talks about the ancient Goddess Kali, this book is not about her; it is in fact about the transition that India is going.

I read City of Djinns by William Dalrymple and fell in love with his easy going, unbiased and interesting way of telling history. With great expectations, I picked up William’s next offering; Age of Kali and I got the shock of my life.

“The most admired young travel writer today is the industrious and preternaturally talented William Dalrymple, without whose presence all prize-lists seem grotesquely naked. With the Age of Kali he has pulled it off again Witty and eagle-eyed, Dalrymple is, above everything, a fine observer and reporter.” The Age of Kali elsewhere on the.

Stories from the Indian sub-continent about moral, political, religious and societal breakdown. A review of Age of Kali by William Dalrymple.

24.05.2018 · INTERVIEW: In the anniversary month of the 1857 mutiny, historian William Dalrymple takes us on a tour of those sites in Delhi that tell the story of 1857.

William Dalrymple FRSL FRGS FRSE Dalrymple in 2014 Born William Hamilton-Dalrymple 1965-03-20 20 March 1965 age 54 Scotland Occupation Writer, historian Residence Delhi, India Nationality Scottish Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Period 1989–present Subject India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Middle East, Eastern Christianity.