Children of Kali - Softcover

Kevin Rushby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841195685 ISBN 13: 9781841195681

Publisher: Robinson Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

They murdered more than a million travellers without spilling a drop of blood. They were inspired by religious fanaticism, yet came from many faiths. Their weapon was the handkerchief, their sacrament sugar, and their goddess Kali. They were the thugs. He is responsible for more than a hundred murders. He lives in the deepest jungles left in India and avoids capture, his followers claim, by magical powers. Some say he is a freedom fighter, others that he is a vicious hoodlum. He is Veerappan, India's most wanted man, and the most famous member of the modern thug cult. This book investigates this dark side of India. The author's quest takes him to prisons and gangster hideouts, probing the nature of crime and punishment in a country where the distinction between good and evil can be as murky as the Ganges. Part travelogue, part history and part personal record, this book is a revelation too - the Devil of the title is not Kali, nor is it any of the thugs or other villains, but the demons that exist within a traveller's own mind.

About this title

About the Author:

Kevin Rushby has lived and worked in Sudan, Malaysia, Thailand and Yemen. He is now a full-time writer and author of Chasing the Mountain of Light, Eating the Flowers of Paradise, and Hunting Pirate Heaven.

Review:

"- '..a thoroughly fascinating read, but it is much more than that: it's an important book and one of the best travelogues I have read in years.' Sunday Times - 'The thing Rushby's book unobtrusively captures is its (India's) endless, dizzying fascination.' Daily Telegraph - 'Children of Kali - a fine of work, full of poetic moments, which can make one distinctly uncomfortable - is especially to be welcomed.' Literary Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Robinson Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1841195685
• ISBN 13: 9781841195681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288