Smell

JHA, Radhika

Penguin

Viking Penguin India

The world's most densely populated country, and the tiger's last remaining natural habitat, India is a land of contradictions. In this visually stunning book, photographer Olivier Föllmi captures this land where tradition and modernity coexist-the India of the cell phone and the sacred cow. Föllmi looks beyond the commotion and sensory overload of the Indian street to examine deeper truths about the people and their culture. His photographs convey serenity and stillness, expressing a philosophy and an approach to life radically different from the West's. This award-winning photographer's work includes portraits of people of all classes-farmers and potters, dancers and musicians, parents and children-and probes as well human interactions with animals including cows, monkeys, and elephants. Never does he portray his subjects as exotic objects; rather, his realistic, moving images pay tribute to his subjects' essential dignity and profound humanity.

India

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

After her father is killed in a Nairobi riot, Leela Patel is sent to live with relatives in Paris, where she must learn to adapt as she works in her uncle's Indian grocery, until she discovers how to use her beauty and extraordinary sense of smell to enter the elite society of Paris as an acclaimed chef, but her power of smell soon becomes her enemy and must embark on a journey of self-discovery to cleanse her soul. 10,000 first printing.

Smell: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Soho Pr Inc

Leela Patel is sent to Paris to stay with relatives after her father is killed by terrorists in Kenya. Living with her gluttonous aunt, confined to her uncle's Indian grocery, she feels suffocated. Taking flight, she uses her uncanny sense of smell to rise to culinary heights. Then, it betrays her.

Soho Press

The recent Bollywood craze in the West might get more exposure, but contemporary Indian artists aren't far behind. New Delhi, New Wave is the best introduction to date to the work of established and emerging Indian artists--many of whom are dealing with the theme of women in fresh ways. Pushpamala N., for example, makes Cindy Sherman-esque portraits of herself as Indian female icons, from religious leaders to Bollywood actresses, while Anita Dube combines installation, photography, collage and video to explore Hindu iconography and tradition through a Feminist lens. Subodh Gupta, one of the best-known Indian artists on the international scene, uses quotidian objects to explore identity. At last summer's Venice Biennale, Gupta caused a sensation with "A Very Hungry God" (2006), a 2,000-pound skull crafted from shiny silver pots and pans, which he installed on a floating base in the Grand Canal. Shila Gupta, born in 1976, one of the youngest artists surveyed here, represents Delhi's newest wave. She has created a series of interactive works on the Web (www.blessed-bandwidth.net), where visitors are invited to choose a religion so that they may receive a blessing. Other artists introduced in this volume are Bala Subramaniam, Sonia Khurana, Thukral &amp; Tagra, Baba Anand, Bharti Kher and Krinaraj Chonat.

New Delhi, New Wave

History & Criticism

Damiani

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