Author : Sanjeev Bhaskar
Performed By : Sanjeev Bhaskar
Published By : HarperCollins Publishers
Length : 7 hours
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers
Autobiography
TV & Film
Download Price : $20.25
Exotic and diverse, richly colourful and intriguingly complex – India is one of the most exciting countries to visit in the world today. Sanjeev Bhaskar of ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ and 'The Kumars at No. 42' , grew up in 70s surburban west London, so his regular family visits to India to see his relatives gave him an endless fascination for its bizarre contradictions. Now Sanjeev is going back with a BBC film crew to delve deeper into what makes this country such a compelling phenomenon.
As Sanjeev travels from Delhi to Bombay, Jaipur to Calcutta, he meets ordinary and extraordinary Indian people from every background, and brings his natural warmth and sense of humour to these encounters. Although often baffled by the eccentricities of India, our endearingly good-natured guide never fails to find humour in these situations.
‘Sanjeev's India’ is also a personal journey as Sanjeev meets old relatives who reveal their moving and often traumatic stories of India's turbulent and bloody past, and comes to understand a little more about his own roots.
During his trip Sanjeev is invited to a middle-class wedding in Delhi as well as witnessing the poverty of the slums in the Calcutta backstreets. He wryly observes the polo-playing Maharajah jet-set in Jaipur as well as the kitsch of Bombay Bollywood, and experiences the Ganges lit up by a million floating candles for the ancient ritual of Diwali and the majestic colonial architecture of the British Raj.
With such an engaging and thoughtful travelling companion, we find ourselves going beyond the clichés to reveal a country steeped in history yet at the forefront of new technology, at once confusing, astonishing and jaw-droppingly beautiful.
Other titles you may be interested in
Author : Michael Palin
Performed By : Michael Palin
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 6 hours 5 minutes
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers
Non Fiction
Download Price : $29.25
The actor and writer reads the account of his third and most ambitious world adventure: an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific. See full description... |
Author : Various
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Listen & Live
Length : 6 hours
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers
Download Price : $24.95 $16.25
|
Author : Michael Palin
Performed By : Michael Palin
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 7 hours 35 minutes
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers
Biographical
British
TV
Non Fiction
Download Price : $31.75
Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. See full description... |
Author : Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Performed By : Graeme Malcolm
Published By : Simon & Schuster
Length : 6 hours
Categories - Adventurers & Explorers
Historical
Biographical
Download Price : $29.95 $17.95
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party... See full description... |
| 
