The majority of Raxa Collective’s contributors are Indian, but increasingly many of us are non-Indian (North American, European, Latin American, African, etc.) and some of us have been living in, observing and trying to understand India for years now. We find this book’s title (click to go to the source), and especially the blurb that goes with it on the author’s website, compelling:
A Strange Kind of Paradise is an exploration of India’s past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in India for many years. Sam Miller investigates how the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and Americans – everyone really, except for Indians themselves – came to imagine India. Continue reading
