When one says Namaste it is culture and it is also religion and also it is religious wisdom that we have got to back up religion. Our culture is never separate from our religion. Our highest literature is our philosophy. He has honorary doctorates of letters from the universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen, Bradford and Lucknow, and in September took up a visiting fellowship at Princeton.Īs Hindus, we dance and sing our philosophy. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the Guardian, and is one of the founders and a co-director of the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival. His new book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan 1839-42 was published to acclaim in December. He recently curated a major show of Late Mughal art for the Asia Society in New York, Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857. William Dalrymple is the author of nine books about India and the Islamic world, including City of Djinns (Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Prize), White Mughals (Wolfson Prize for HAwardistory and SAC Scottish Book of the Year Prize), The Last Mughal (Duff Cooper Prize and Crossword/ Vodafone Award for Non-Fiction) and Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Asia House Literary ).
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