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Plan your visit today.ĪsiaStore’s uniqueness is a direct reflection of the featured design talent. With a commitment to featuring the renowned brands of Asia and promoting emerging design talent, AsiaStore is at the forefront of presenting the best in Asian design and literature. We appreciate your patience and look forward to relaunching in fall! Catalogues for Asia Society's current exhibitions may be purchased in-store or by calling (212) 327-9217.ĪsiaStore at Asia Society and Museum is a unique and dynamic retail environment that showcases the modern Asian lifestyle. Flamingo.AsiaStore's website is currently offline as we redesign the online shopping experience. Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (1994).ĭalrymple was played by Bollywood and stage actor Tom Alter, with Zohra Sehgal playing the role of Nora Nicholson, a British national who prefers to stay in India after it achieves independence.
The book was adapted into a play in 2007 by Rahul Dasinnur Pulkeshi of Delhi-based Dreamtheatre. The book followed his established style of historical digressions, tied in with contemporary events and a multitude of anecdotes. Still more seriously, he finds evidence of the city’s violent past and present day-the 1857 mutiny against British rule the Partition massacres in 1947 and the riots after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. Dalrymple describes ancient ruins and the experience of living in the modern city: he goes in search of the history behind the epic stories of the Mahabharata. The City of Djinns is one of the first books by William Dalrymple which doesn't revolve around the history of India, rather it represents various anecdotes of his time in India and explores the history of India with the help of various characters he meets, like the Puri family, the driver, the customs officer, and British survivors of the Raj, Īs well as whirling dervishes and eunuch dancers (‘a strange mix of piety and bawdiness’). It is his second book, and culminated as a result of his six-year stay in New Delhi.
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (1993) is a travelogue by William Dalrymple about the historical capital of India, Delhi.
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