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The Jungle Book Report

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A Book can transport you to a world of its own, away from your reality. These Books are designed to make you experience a longing to go to places all around India, and what's more, they are not even really fictional! Keep your backpacks ready with everything you need- •Rudyard Kipling The book, 'Kim' follows the story of teenage Kim, son of an Irish immigrant and ‘friend of all the world’, who travels the roads of India with his guru, an elderly Tibetan lama on a spiritual quest for a river of enlightenment. You tramp along with Kim down the streets of Lahore, on the Grand Trunk Road, and through Himalayan passes. In The Jungle Book, Kipling gives us an insight to human as well as animal conditions with Mowgli, the man-cub, and his entourage …show more content…

All of the unique characters in the book are involved in some arcane spiritual practise and the enormous research Dalrymple did to flesh out the stories and give the reader background and context makes for fascinating and informative reading. He is a solid as a rock in terms of research, reporting and writing. City of Djinns is his first book about India and it’s about Delhi (Dilli) — and in fact, he lives there now. The book is both a personal narrative about living in India for a year and about the history of Delhi. (And if there’s one thing Delhi has, aside from crowds of people and traffic, it’s history.) It’s in turns informative and …show more content…

Tully (which means drunk in Hindi!) was the chief correspondent for the BBC in Delhi for thirty years and a Padma Shree awardee. His most recent book, India’s Unending Journey, is by far his most personal one. It’s about his own psychological and spiritual journey as he learns from India to be “certain about uncertainty.” Sir William Mark Tully's compassion for India is evident in his book India in Slow Motion. He takes us through 10 crucial topics related to India and explains to us with a neat clarity. Be it the untouchablity issue or the Project Tiger, the explanation is neat and comprehensible. For every person who aspires to be a journalist, this book is a must read this book. We definitely get an informative insight into all the major Indian cities and the myriad events taking place in them, from

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