{"product_id":"9780006547754_the-age-of-kali","title":"The Age of Kali","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in ‘City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India’s first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti – She Who Is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The Age of Kali’ is the fourth fascinating volume from the author of ‘In Xanadu’, ‘City of Djinns’ and ‘From the Holy Mountain’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Dalrymple","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895186935957,"sku":"9780006547754","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780006547754_a102cd18-52dc-44b5-9940-cea5bb006d83.jpg?v=1776888422","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780006547754_the-age-of-kali","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}