Empire of the soul - Paul William Roberts

Following graduation Paul Roberts, like many of his generation, first went to live in India in the seventies. He has returned, for various reasons, some twenty times since then. Roberts first went in search for that vague and tantalising thing, Truth. What he found was a different kind of truth, another kind of relationship. Like all relationships it had it's ups and its downs, its loves and its hates. To portray this in all its variety and its complexity the book is divided into two sections, The Seventies and The Nineties. From the author's introduction: "From enough material to fill three books this length, I have selected episodes and incidents, journeys inner and outer, anecdotes and little histories and conversations that I trust will provide a mosaic image of a and that, in its richness, complexity, and sheer size defies any definitive portrait. If what means much to me fails to please the reader, it is not India's fault. I take full responsibility."