{"product_id":"age-of-kali","title":"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\n          \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\n          \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\n          \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":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54227061145944,"sku":"9780006547754","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780006547754_ba435e30-aba6-4cea-9a22-acd5b9426e42.jpg?v=1765605628","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/age-of-kali","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}