Man’s life
without religion can be positioned as an inevitable privation - an unending
path in the darkness. We all need light in our lives to walk ahead and embrace
our duties and responsibilities towards humanity and the God. Some are simple for
Godly affection while others go crazy in devotion. So, here the book – Nine
Lives in Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple, explores
the lives of nine people on account of their journey taken towards their
devotion and their respective Gods or the source of powers.
The book is an
interesting read mainly it is unbiased in its nature. It almost covers all the
directions of the vast India, ranging from South India to Bengal to Rajasthan
to Eastern monasteries. For every religion, it provides a wonderful story as
well as touches the hearts of their people. The most interesting and touching
one was about a Monk’s story, who meets another monk and they weep together in
remembrance of their homeland Tibet and about autocracies of China. It is taken
that the writer must have travelled a lot to compile this work. Indeed a good
compilation on travel writing. Yes, the book is based on humanitarian
compassion. Through every story the writer tried to conjure up a story of
humanity or the value of faith and religion in their lives (the characters). It
is quite rare to find such an influencing book in the form of short stories.
But, William has done it remarkably.
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